Evaluation of risk factors for a fulminant Clostridium difficile infection after cardiac surgery: a single-center, retrospective cohort study

Table 1 Gastrointestinal complications

Variable	CDI positive n = 1256
Variable	n	%
Laparotomy	56	4.5
Gastrointestinal bleeding	54	4.3
Acute abdomen and/or peritonitis and/or perforation	20	1.6
Ileus/ischemia	23	1.8
Pseudomembranous colitis	35	2.8
Toxic megacolon	7	0.6
Other abdominal complications	20	1.6

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