Case Presentation: A 70-year-old man with a history of bladder cancer treated with intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) therapy presented with acute on chronic back pain. Six months prior, he presented with lower back pain, was diagnosed with culture negative bacterial osteomyelitis, and underwent an L3-L5 laminectomy. He was discharged with an empiric 6-week antibiotic course [...]

Case Presentation: An 86-year-old male with a past medical history of bladder cancer, status post Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) therapy 12 months prior, presented to the ED with three months of progressively worsening back pain and weight loss. He denied cough, fever, night sweats, dysuria, recent travel, history of farming, exposure to cattle, or consumption of [...]

Case Presentation: A 78 year old man with a past medical history of diabetes on insulin and chronic back pain initially presented with several days of diarrhea. On admission he was found to have Clostridium difficile colitis that improved slowly on oral vancomycin. On hospital day 7 he developed acute debilitating back pain and was [...]