VOLUME 3 , ISSUE 1 ( 2013 ) > List of Articles
Kanwaldeep Singh, Rama Gupta, Rajdeep Singh Chhina, Kavita Saggar, Omesh Goyal, Jasdeep Singh
Keywords : Acute abdomen, C.difficile infection, pseudomembranous colitis
Citation Information : Singh K, Gupta R, Chhina RS, Saggar K, Goyal O, Singh J. Clostridium difficile infection presenting as acute abdomen. J Gastrointest Infect 2013; 3 (1):66-68.
DOI: 10.5005/jogi-3-1-66
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Published Online: 01-10-2015
Copyright Statement: Copyright © 2013; The Author(s).
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is an important cause of infectious nosocomial diarrhoea. Widespread use of antibiotics has led to a dramatic rise in the incidence of CDI. However, a majority of the CDI cases are either misdiagnosed or undiagnosed because of low clinical suspicion or the use of diagnostic tests with low sensitivity. Although occurrence of diarrhoea in a patient who has recently received antibiotics is an important clue to the diagnosis of CDI, presentation of CDIwith non-diarrheal symptoms like fever, pain abdomen or abdominal distention is known. We report a case of a 65 years old male who presented with acute abdomen in surgical emergency, was diagnosed to have CDI, and was successfully treated with vancomycin.