Surgical Management of Diverticulitis-Associated Clostridioides Difficile Infection

J Gastrointest Surg. 2021 Mar;25(3):829-830. doi: 10.1007/s11605-020-04812-2. Epub 2020 Oct 1.

Authors

Sagar D Patel^{1

2}, Ya-Ching Hung¹, Zain G Hashmi¹, Marcie Feinman¹, Christopher R D'Adamo^{1

3}, Shane Svoboda¹, Joshua H Wolf⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, 2435 Belvedere Ave, Hoffberger Building, Suite 42, Baltimore, MD, 21215, USA.
² Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
³ Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, 2435 Belvedere Ave, Hoffberger Building, Suite 42, Baltimore, MD, 21215, USA. joswolf@lifebridgehealth.org.

PMID: 33006061
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-020-04812-2

No abstract available

Keywords: Clostridioides difficile; Clostridium difficile; Diverticulitis; Fecal microbiota transplantation; Sigmoidectomy.

MeSH terms

Clostridioides
Clostridium Infections* / complications
Clostridium Infections* / diagnosis
Diverticulitis* / complications
Diverticulitis* / surgery
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation
Humans