Strich Jeffrey, Brancato Sam, Dolan Rebecca, Maruf Mahir, Siddiqui Mohammad R, Sanford Thomas, Zerbe Christa, Agarwal Piyush K
Division of Clinical Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Urol Case Rep. 2017 May 22;13:152-153. doi: 10.1016/j.eucr.2017.04.009. eCollection 2017 Jul.
BCG sepsis is rarely seen with modern intravesical therapy and therefore its presentation may not be apparent to recently trained urologists. We describe BCG sepsis occurring in a patient treated with combined intravesical and intraurethral BCG which resulted in lung consolidation with acid-fast bacilli requiring cessation of BCG and initiation of systemic antibiotic therapy.