Systemic Bacillus Calmette-Guerin infection secondary to inadvertent intravenous injection

Mudasir Farooq; Santhosh Nagasubramanian; Benedict Paul Samuel

doi:10.4103/iju.IJU_638_20

Systemic Bacillus Calmette-Guerin infection secondary to inadvertent intravenous injection

Indian J Urol. 2021 Jul-Sep;37(3):274-276. doi: 10.4103/iju.IJU_638_20. Epub 2021 Jul 1.

Authors

Mudasir Farooq¹, Santhosh Nagasubramanian¹, Benedict Paul Samuel¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Urology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Abstract

Disseminated BCG infection (BCG-osis) secondary to intravesical BCG given for high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer has been reported. We report the successful management of two cases of BCG-osis secondary to inadvertent intravenous BCG injection. Both cases are recurrence-free at the follow-up of 12 and 18 months, respectively. There is only one such case reported in English literature so far to the best of our knowledge.

Publication types

Case Reports