Meeting
Abstract Number: 710
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 85-year-old gentleman who was started on intra-vesical BCG therapy for Tis staged bladder cancer presented to the hospital with excruciating asymmetric polyarticular joint pain.He previously completed induction therapy successfully, during which he had developed cystitis. Subsequently, the patient received 3 doses of maintenance therapy, and on day 5 after his last dose […]
Abstract Number: 732
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: Intravesical administration of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), a live attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis, is used as an adjunctive therapy for superficial bladder cancer. Although mostly well tolerated, disseminated infections can occur rarely. We describe a case of Mycobacterial vertebral osteomyelitis (Pott’s disease) following BCG immunotherapy that was treated with anti-tubercular therapy. Discussion: An […]