Abstract
Clostridium difficile colitis occurs as a chronic or an acute illness with intensity varying from mild to severe. The surgeon will most often encounter this disease in the acute setting and will need to recognize how to properly assess the patient and when to intervene surgically. We will address in the following chapter the work-up and management of acute Clostridium difficile colitis and the different medical and surgical options available. The standard of surgical care for fulminant Clostridium difficile infection is subtotal colectomy, but the timing of the intervention and emerging surgical alternatives continue to evolve.
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Vely, A.P., Ferrada, P. (2019). Clostridium difficile Infection. In: Brown, C., Inaba, K., Martin, M., Salim, A. (eds) Emergency General Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96286-3_23
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