Clostridium difficile Colitis in a Patient With Abdominal Distention, Pain, and Severe Constipation

Fed Pract. 2018 Jun;35(6):44-46.

Authors

Amy N Cowan¹, Geeta Kutty¹

Affiliation

¹ is a Staff Hospitalist at George E. Wahlen VAMC. is a Gastroenterology Fellow at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and Dr. Cowan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah Hospital Department of Internal Medicine, both in Salt Lake City.

PMID: 30766366
PMCID: PMC6368024

Abstract

This case reinforces the need to consider infectious disease as a possible cause of constipation for a patient on opioids.