Left-sided Ulcerative Colitis Reactivated and Aggravated during Clostridium difficile Infection / 대한소화기학회지
The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology
;
: 374-378, 2011.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-148878
ABSTRACT
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection appears to be closely related to reactivation, diagnostic delay, and disease progression in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. However, whether C. difficile infection triggers the reactivation of inflammatory bowel disease or vice versa is not certain. We report a case of reactivated and progressed left ulcerative colitis following C. difficile infection in a 56-year-old woman. A series of endoscopic findings in this case report strongly supports a causative role of C. difficile infection on the reactivation and progression of ulcerative colitis.
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The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology
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2011
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