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12-03-2025 | Aneurysm | CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Iatrogenic fever of unknown origin

Authors: Shinnosuke Fukushima, Hideharu Hagiya, Keiji Yunoki, Gentaro Kato, Shinichi Mukai

Published in: Internal and Emergency Medicine

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Intravesical Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) therapy is primarily indicated for carcinoma in situ of the urinary bladder. Unfortunately, BCG-related infections possibly occur following bladder instillation, with reported incidence rates ranging from 0.98% to 4.3% [1, 2]. This iatrogenic adverse event usually develops more than 3 months after the BCG instillation, with various manifestations [3]. Among a range of systemic complications, vascular involvements are quite rare, accounting for 5.7% of documented BCG-related infections [2]. Nevertheless, severe cases of BCG-infected aortic aneurysms have been described in the literature [46]. We herein present another case of BCG-related psoas abscess with concurrent secondary infected aneurysm after intravesical BCG therapy. …
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Metadata
Title
Iatrogenic fever of unknown origin
Authors
Shinnosuke Fukushima
Hideharu Hagiya
Keiji Yunoki
Gentaro Kato
Shinichi Mukai
Publication date
12-03-2025
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Internal and Emergency Medicine
Print ISSN: 1828-0447
Electronic ISSN: 1970-9366
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-025-03915-5

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