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Features of the course of pseudomembranous colitis in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18565/therapy.2022.4.71-76
Eremina E.Yu., Gerasimenko I.V., Lityushkina M.I., Strokova O.A.
N.P. Ogarev National Research Mordovia State University, Saransk
Purpose: to analyze and identify the features of the course of pseudomembranous colitis in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2.
Material and methods. The analysis was carried out on the basis of questionnaires, including information on the course and treatment of COVID-19, comorbidity, clinical symptoms of pseudomembranous colitis, results of colonoscopy, fecal ELISA for C. difficile toxins.
Results and conclusion. 396 questionnaires of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 complicated by pseudomembranous colitis were analyzed. The maximum number of patients (36%) was recorded at the age of 60–69 years; women (65%) predominated in the structure of patients. The onset of symptoms of intestinal dyspepsia, in most cases (67%), was observed on the 10–20th day from the onset of COVID-19, and in 78,5% of cases, a recurrent course of colitis was observed. In 81% of cases, pseudomembranous colitis developed against the background of antibiotic therapy, and in 67% of cases, its development was combined with the appointment of proton pump inhibitors. Mortality from pseudomembranous colitis against the background of SARS-CoV-2 was very high (25,5%) and increased with increasing age of the patient, reaching a maximum (51,7%) in the group of patients over 80 years old. In 99%, the cause of deaths was the development of multiple organ failure against the background of concomitant pathology. Severe course of viral pneumonia in deceased patients was observed only in 17% of cases, which indicates the leading role of intestinal damage in the development of multiple organ failure syndrome in patients with pseudomembranous colitis against the background of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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About the Autors
Elena Yu. Eremina, Dr. med. habil., professor, head of the Department of propaedeutics of internal diseases, N.P. Ogarev National Research Mordovia State University. Address: 430005, Saransk, 68 Bol`shevistskaya Str.
E-mail: eeu61@mail.ru
Irina V. Gerasimenko, PhD in Medicine, associate professor of the Department of propaedeutics of internal diseases, N.P. Ogarev National Research Mordovia State University. Address: 430005, Saransk, 68 Bol`shevistskaya Str.
E-mail: gerasimenkoi@list.ru. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4008-4689
Marina I. Lityushkina, PhD in Medicine, associate professor of the Department of propaedeutics of internal diseases, N.P. Ogarev National Research Mordovia State University. Address: 430005, Saransk, 68 Bol`shevistskaya Str.
E-mail: litjushkina@rambler.ru
Olga A. Strokova, PhD in Medicine, associate professor of the Department of propaedeutics of internal diseases, N.P. Ogarev National Research Mordovia State University. Address: 430005, Saransk, 68 Bol`shevistskaya Str.
E-mail: strokovaoa@rambler.ru
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