Early Surgery for the Treatment of Toxic Megacolon

Carmelo D’Amico,A. Vitale,Imerio Angriman,Cesare Ruffolo,F. D’Amico,Domenico Valente,Maurizio Berto,V. Vella,Marco Scarpa,Davide F. D’Amico

Early Surgery for the Treatment of Toxic Megacolon

2005

Carmelo D’Amico
A. Vitale
Imerio Angriman
Cesare Ruffolo
F. D’Amico
Domenico Valente
Maurizio Berto
V. Vella
Marco Scarpa
Davide F. D’Amico

Background: Toxic megacolon (TM) is a potentially lethal complication of idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease or infectious colitis, characterized by total or segmental non-obstruc

Keywords:

Gastroenterology
Complication
Infectious Colitis
Mortality rate
Medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Toxic megacolon
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
Internal medicine
Inflammatory bowel disease
Surgery
early surgery

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