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Disorders of the Colon

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What is your approach to treatment of patients with fulminant C difficile infection who required ileostomy creation or colectomy?

Is there a role for oral vancomycin in these patients, or is oral vancomycin redundant if other routes of administration are being used (i.e intracolo...

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What is your approach to duration of fidaxomicin in a patient receiving treatment for first C difficile infection while also receiving concurrent antibiotics for an infection?

Do you extend the course of fidaxomicin past initial 10 days to at least 3-7 days after completion of antibiotics?

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Do you recommend, based on current evidence, avoiding antimotility agents in patients with non-fulminant C. difficile infection who have no evidence of ileus?

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Under what circumstances would you recommend early fecal microbiota transplantation over antibiotic treatment or bezlotoxumab in a patient with recurrent C. difficile infection?

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What is your approach to working up diarrhea in an immunocompromised patient?

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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2018 Mar 19

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).

Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes, 2020 Nov 05

Are Antimotility Agents Safe for Use in Infections? Results From an Observational Study in Malignant Hematology Patients.

The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 1995 Oct

Diarrhoea caused by Clostridium difficile: response time for treatment with metronidazole and vancomycin.

The American journal of gastroenterology, 2021 Jun 01

ACG Clinical Guidelines: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infections.

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