Disseminated Granulomatous Disease from Intravesical Instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin

Sayed Ab. Reshad Ghafouri; Alexander Brun; Rohit Bhalla; Craig Margulies; Kevin Skole

doi:10.1155/2018/8280527

Case Reports in Oncological Medicine (Jan 2018)

Disseminated Granulomatous Disease from Intravesical Instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin

Sayed Ab. Reshad Ghafouri,
Alexander Brun,
Rohit Bhalla,
Craig Margulies,
Kevin Skole

Affiliations

Sayed Ab. Reshad Ghafouri: Triborough GI Gastroenterology, NY Scientific Research Center, 1517 Voorhies Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11235, USA
Alexander Brun: Mount Sinai Beth Israel, 3201 Kings Highway, Brooklyn, NY 11234, USA
Rohit Bhalla: ID Care, 105 Raider Blvd. Suite 101, Hillsborough, NJ 08844, USA
Craig Margulies: Digestive Disease Center, 11 State Road, Suite 200, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Kevin Skole: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University Medical Center at Princeton, 253 Witherspoon Street, Lambert House, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/8280527
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2018

Abstract

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Intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin is one of the standard treatment options for superficial bladder cancer. While Bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy is usually well tolerated with most patients experiencing only cystitis, in rare cases, it can lead to disseminated granulomatous disease. We present a case of a 72-year-old man with disseminated granulomatous disease from intravesical BCG instillation whose treatment was complicated by antimycobacterial drug toxicity.

Published in Case Reports in Oncological Medicine

ISSN: 2090-6706 (Print); 2090-6714 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7583

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