Background: High-risk patients with hematuria often warrant an outpatient evaluation for bladder cancer; however the presence of microscopic hematuria may often be missed by primary care physicians after hospital discharge. Whether outpatient physician’s routinely follow-up incidental microscopic hematuria on urinalysis performed during inpatient visits is yet to be fully elucidated. Our aim was to assess [...]

Case Presentation: A 76-year-old man with bladder cancer presented with severe back pain and radiculopathy after receiving treatment with a transurethral resection and subsequent intravesical BCG therapy. His lumbar MRI showed degenerative and morphological changes suggestive of an infection (Figure 1). He was treated with L1-L5 laminectomies and foraminotomies. 3 weeks later, repeat imaging showed [...]

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 69 year-old man with history of high-grade invasive urothelial bladder cancer post tumor resection on Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) treatment and renal cell carcinoma post left partial nephrectomy presented with high-grade fever, night sweats, rigors, and lower abdominal pain for 2 weeks. The last BCG instillation, of 11 total, was 17 days prior [...]

Case Presentation: A 91-year-old Japanese man was referred to our institution for the management of a ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm. Two days prior, he had been admitted to another hospital with a one-week history of fever. Chest computed tomography (CT) revealed fluid accumulation around the descending aorta and a left pleural effusion, which was bloody, [...]