A CASE OF NONANTIBIOTIC-ASSOCIATED PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS

Abstract

A 73 year-old woman developed mucous evacuation lasting a week. She had not received antimicrobial agents for the past 8 months. Sigmoidoscopic examination at another hospital showed small whitish elevations densely in the rectum and sigmoid colon. The patient visited outpatient department of our hospital because of not making a diagno-sis. Stool culture yielded Clostridium dif f icile, and she was diagnosed to have pseudomem-branous colitis. This case was rare and interesting in the point of non antibiotic-associated colitis, which had been followed up by endoscopic examination without treatment.