Pleural Effusion Caused by Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Immunotherapy for Bladder Cancer

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2017 Jun 17;4(3):ofx126. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofx126. eCollection 2017 Summer.

Abstract

Intravesical bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG) instillation has been used as immunotherapy for early stage bladder cancer for >40 years. Complications from this therapy are rare but may result in a spectrum of infectious sequelae. Here we describe the case of an elderly man who presented with a pleural effusion and subcutaneous nodule several years after treatment with BCG.

Keywords: bacillus Calmette Guérin; bladder cancer; pleural effusion.

Publication types

  • Case Reports