급성 충수돌기염 천공으로 오인된 노인에서의 위막성 대장염 1예

• Published in: Annals of geriatric medicine and research pp. 34 - 38
• Main Authors: 윤영진, 노지훈, 한원석, 박철우, 박성환, 박정익, 남원욱
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 대한노인병학회 01.03.2012
• Subjects: 가정의학
• ISSN: 2508-4798; 2508-4909

Pseudomembranous colitis is mostly related to antibiotics and it presents symptoms of diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, hypoalbuminemia and hypovolemia. Diarrhea is the most common manifestation, but in geriatric patients, symptoms of pseudomembranous colitis can be different from those of usual cases and the course of disease can be more aggressive. For these reasons, it can be misdiagnosed. So physicians must take pseudomembranous colitis into consideration in older patients with acute abdominal pain, who have been treated with antibiotics. We reported a case of an older patient with pseudomembranous colitis which was misdiagnosed as acute appendicitis with perforation. KCI Citation Count: 0