This paper provides a review of the largest studies (over period 2017 to 2022) on cost-effectiveness analysis recommended treatment algorithms for Clostridioides difficile infection in patients with antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD), including pseudomembranous colitis. The showed that professional medical societies Russia, EU and US as well meta-analyses consistently consider vancomycin most...

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) can be associated with different infectious etiologies, but the relationship between pseudomembranous colitis and HUS was first described in the 1970s in some childhood patients. There is very limited published literature on Clostridium difficile-associated HUS. We report a case of C. difficile-related HUS in an adult patient and provide a review of the literature.

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) colitis usually occurs in immunocompromised patients after undergoing organ transplantation or chemotherapy. We report the case of a 60-year-old immunocompetent Japanese woman who presented with abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. She was initially diagnosed as having ischemic colitis with pseudomembranous colitis on the basis of her symptoms, Clostridium difficile antigen...

CASE PRESENTATIONS Case 1 . A 62-year-old woman with diabetes was admitted because of an infected toe. Physical examination was normal except for an ulceration of the left 4th toe. Routine laboratory studies revealed only elevated blood sugar and moderate ketonuria. A roentgenogram of the toe revealed osteomyelitis. The infection improved with clindamycin therapy (300 mg IV, t:d), and the toe w...

1. Department of Radiology, Bezmialem Vakif University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey Background: A 25-year-old man was treated with ampicillin for acute tooth inflammation. After five days, he presented to the emergency department with intermittent abdominal pain especially at the right lower and left upper quadrant, bloody diarrhea, fever and nausea. Physical examination revealed diff...