Management of Hepatic Granulomatous Tuberculosis After BCG Therapy for Bladder Cancer

BCG therapy is used as a treatment in bladder cancer. Intravesical administration of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is used as a treatment method in superficial bladder cancer. While it is commonly effective, some serious side effects may occur. We hereby report a 65-year-old man who developed granulomato...

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Autores principales: Ayati, Mohsen, Nowroozi, Mohammad Reza, Mortazavi, Afshin, Ohadian Moghadam, Solmaz, Ghorani, Hossein
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28567336
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2017.04.011
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author Ayati, Mohsen
Nowroozi, Mohammad Reza
Mortazavi, Afshin
Ohadian Moghadam, Solmaz
Ghorani, Hossein
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description BCG therapy is used as a treatment in bladder cancer. Intravesical administration of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is used as a treatment method in superficial bladder cancer. While it is commonly effective, some serious side effects may occur. We hereby report a 65-year-old man who developed granulomatous hepatitis as a complication following BCG therapy. He was treated successfully with antitubercular therapy and prednisolone.
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spelling pubmed-54473722017-05-31 Management of Hepatic Granulomatous Tuberculosis After BCG Therapy for Bladder Cancer Ayati, Mohsen Nowroozi, Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Afshin Ohadian Moghadam, Solmaz Ghorani, Hossein Urol Case Rep Oncology BCG therapy is used as a treatment in bladder cancer. Intravesical administration of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is used as a treatment method in superficial bladder cancer. While it is commonly effective, some serious side effects may occur. We hereby report a 65-year-old man who developed granulomatous hepatitis as a complication following BCG therapy. He was treated successfully with antitubercular therapy and prednisolone. Elsevier 2017-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5447372/ /pubmed/28567336 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2017.04.011 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_sort management of hepatic granulomatous tuberculosis after bcg therapy for bladder cancer
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