Fulminant amoebic colitis following loperamide use.
Alastair McGregor;
Michael Brown;
Khin Thway;
Stephen G Wright;
(2007)
Fulminant amoebic colitis following loperamide use.
Journal of travel medicine, 14 (1).
pp. 61-62.
ISSN 1195-1982
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2006.00096.x
Toxic megacolon is a rare consequence of infection with Entamoeba histolytica. We present such a patient in whom the course of disease may have been influenced by heavy loperamide use. Loperamide and other anti-motility agents have been implicated previously in the pathogenesis of toxic megacolon in patients with infectious gastroenteritis.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords | TOXIC MEGACOLON, PERFORATION, RARE, Animals, Antidiarrheals, administration & dosage, adverse effects, Colectomy, Diagnosis, Differential, Diarrhea, drug therapy, pathology, Dysentery, Amebic, diagnosis, pathology, surgery, Entamoeba histolytica, isolation & purification, Female, Humans, Loperamide, administration & dosage, adverse effects, Middle Aged, Severity of Illness Index, Travel |
| ISI | 243507600009 |