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Therapeutic approach to patients with severe C. difficile infection
| Oral vancomycin, 500 mg q.i.d |
| Substitute intracolonic vancomycin infusion if ileus and add metronidazole 500 mg q.i.d., IV |
| Consider IV immunoglobulin therapy (400 mg/kg) |
| Surgical evaluation for acute abdomen |
