Year 2015 / Volume 107 / Number 2
Letter to the Editor
Lethal pseudomembranous colitis in an immunocompetent patient

117-119

Cristina Gas Ruiz, Susana Eugenia Ros López, Felip Vilardell Villella, Carmen Mias Carballal, Rafael Villalobos Mori, Mari Cruz de la Fuente Juárez, Juan Antonio Baena Fustegueras y Jorge Juan Olsina Kissler

Abstract
Dear Editor,
The most common etiology of diarrhea in hospitalized patients is Clostridium difficile (CD). This bacterium can cause pseudo- membranous colitis (PC), although there are other agents that also can produce this illness, such as cytomegalovirus (CMV) that, occasionally, can affect immunocompetent patients.
We present a case of severe pseudomembranous colitis by CMV in an immunocompetent patient, after a clean elective sur- gery for ovarian cyst.
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Cristina Gas Ruiz, Susana Eugenia Ros López, Felip Vilardell Villella, Carmen Mias Carballal, Rafael Villalobos Mori, Mari Cruz de la Fuente Juárez, Juan Antonio Baena Fustegueras y Jorge Juan Olsina Kissler. Lethal pseudomembranous colitis in an immunocompetent patient. 117-119


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