Severe colitis was defined as perforation, toxic megacolon, shock or death within 30 days of diagnosis. |
Dif may experience complications including shock, need for colectomy, megacolon, perforation and even death within a 30 day period. |
This patient developed clostridium difficile-associated toxic megacolon requiring surgical intervention. |
Kitty, a 12yr old domestic shorthair was diagnosed with megacolon a few years ago. |
He was a great, if skinny version of the megacolon burger boy of the later Vegas years. |
Ongoing rectal hyposensitivity may lead to faecal impaction, secondary dilation and the development of a megacolon. |