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Toxic megacolon in cryptosporidiosis
1St. Stephen's Hospital, London, UK.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|December 1, 1987
Abstract:
A 33 year old man with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome developed a toxic megacolon. The patient was admitted with a two month history of diarrhoea. Cryptosporidia were isolated from all stool specimens. Clinically and radiographically he developed toxic dilatation of the colon which responded to conservative management.