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Manuel Ferrer Márquez1, Álvaro Hernández Martínez2, Ángel Reina Duarte1
1Servicio de Cirugía General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Torrecárdenas, Almería, España.
Abstract:
Fulminant colitis is not a well-defined entity, that constitutes a severe complication. It usually occurs in the course of úlcerative colitis and Clostridium difficile colitis. A multidisciplinary management combining gastroenterologist and surgeons is crucial with intensive medical treatment and early surgery in non-responders. It is important to distinguish if we are facing a flare of IBD or, on the contrary, it is an infectious colitis, due to the fact that although general therapeutic measures to adopt will be the same, they will demand opposed specific measures.
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