CLINICAL CASE: PATIENT WITH SEVERE PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLLITIS
Aim: to present a clinical case of pseudomembranous colitis. Key points. Patient F., born in 1960, was urgently taken to the admission department of the Chelyabinsk Regional Clinical Hospital with a clinic of intestinal bleeding. According to the diagnostic colonoscopy: the mucous membrane of all parts of the colon is diffusely ulcerated, hyperemic, edematous, contact vulnerable, multiple (almost totally covering the colon mucosa) yellowish-green plaques were detected, in the analysis of feces Cl. difficile toxins were discovered. The patient was prescribed therapy: vancomycin 125 mg 4 times a day by mouth for 10 days, metronidazole at a dose of 500 mg 3 times a day intravenously for 10 days, with positive dynamics.