Risk Factors Predisposing to Fulminant Amebic Colitis & Mortality

• diabetes mellitus?

• alcoholic cirrhosis or other chronic liver disease?

• malignant lymphoma?

• adenocarcinoma of the colon?

• other cause for immunosuppression?

White blood cell count

Did the patient delay in coming to the hospital admission?

Did the patient have a prompt surgical resection of affected bowel?

Have trophozoites invaded into or through the muscularis propria of the bowel wall?