A 72-year-old man with persistent diarrhea and crampy pain started on broad-spectrum antibiotics last week. Stool NAAT/toxin positive for C. difficile...

Question

A 72-year-old man with persistent diarrhea and crampy pain started on broad-spectrum antibiotics last week. Stool NAAT/toxin positive for C. difficile, leukocytosis 24,000, creatinine 1.9 (baseline 1.0), ileus absent. Severity?

Accepted Answer

Severe CDI (WBC >=15,000 or creatinine >=1.5 baseline)

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Non-severe CDI

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Fulminant CDI

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Colonization only

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Recurrent CDI by definition

us-abim MCQ (SBA): C. difficile Severity

A 72-year-old man with persistent diarrhea and crampy pain started on broad-spectrum antibiotics last week. Stool NAAT/toxin positive for C. difficile, leukocytosis 24,000, creatinine 1.9 (baseline 1.0), ileus absent. Severity?