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Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
CASE REPORT
Invading beyond bounds: extraintestinal Clostridium difficile infection leading to pancreatic and liver abscesses
  1. Moni Roy1,
  2. Kumud Dahal2,
  3. Ashish Kumar Roy3
  1. 1Department of Internal Medicine, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois, USA
  2. 2University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Section of Infectious Diseases, Peoria, Illinois, USA
  3. 3Department of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Moni Roy, moniroy27{at}gmail.com

Summary

Clostridium difficile has become a common healthcare-associated infection over the past few years and gained more attention. C. difficile was estimated to cause almost half a million infections in USA in 2011 and 29 000 died within 30 days of the initial diagnosis. Although colitis due to C. difficile is the most common presentation, there have been reported cases of extraintestinal infections. As per our review of literature, this is the third reported case of liver abscess due to the organism.

  • hepatitis and other GI infections
  • nosocomial infections

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-220240

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors MR wrote the initial manuscript. All authors performed literature review, edited the paper and performed data designing. They also read and approved the final manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.