TY - JOUR T1 - Systemic infection following intravesical therapy with BCG JF - BMJ Case Reports JO - BMJ Case Reports DO - 10.1136/bcr-2021-243641 VL - 14 IS - 11 SP - e243641 AU - Ana Andrade Oliveira AU - Joana Morais AU - Jorge Ribeiro AU - Paulo Ferreira Gouveia Y1 - 2021/11/01 UR - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/14/11/e243641.abstract N2 - Immunotherapy with BCG is an effective and widely used treatment for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. BCG sepsis is a rare but life-threatening and frequently not a straightforward complication of this treatment; in cases with a high index of suspicion, anti-bacillary treatment should not wait for laboratory confirmation and be instituted immediately. We report a severe case of BCG sepsis, in which timely diagnosis and initiation of antituberculosis agents enabled a full recovery. ER -