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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease septicemia
Phenotype C0025162|toxic megacolon
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PubMedID- 24741221 Unfortunately, the patient was admitted with severe sepsis associated with intestinal obstruction, toxic megacolon for which an emergency laparotomy was undertaken when an obvious transition zone was seen in the terminal ileum [figure 1].
PubMedID- 24236153 In humans, c. difficile infection (cdi) can present as diarrhoea, which may range in severity from mild to severe [1]; in some cases cdi may progress to toxic megacolon, perforation of the bowel, sepsis and death.

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