Hemorrhagic diarrhea with competing etiologies
Jacobsen, N.; Olesen, B.; Nielsen, O.M.; Gustafsen, J.H.
Ugeskrift for Laeger 163(40): 5541-5542
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-5782 PMID: 11601123 Document Number: 531937
A case history of a 41-year-old woman with bloody diarrhoea is described. A right-sided hemicolectomy was performed and histological findings showed pseudomembranous colitis. The woman was infected with verotoxin-producing E. coli O103:H2. She had taken an overdose of ergotamine and was using a contraceptive containing oestrogen. Each of these have previously been described as being the cause of bloody diarrhoea, but we suggest the combination as the aetiology in the present case.