A 56-Year-Old Male With Weight Loss, Night Sweats, Dyspnea, and Bladder Cancer

A 56-Year-Old Male With Weight Loss, Night Sweats, Dyspnea, and Bladder Cancer

A 56-year-old man presented with subacute night sweats, fever, and weight loss with worsening dyspnea. Computed tomography (CT) scan demonstrated miliary pattern of nodules evenly distributed throughout all lung fields. Given the patient’s CT findings and temporal association with Bacille Calmette-G...

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Main Authors: Bradley C. Sanville MD, Brooks T. Kuhn MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-02-01
Series:Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2324709621997246
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spelling doaj-0deb0142eb75439ebb2f40dfc3ff224a2021-02-28T06:04:22ZengSAGE PublishingJournal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports2324-70962021-02-01910.1177/2324709621997246A 56-Year-Old Male With Weight Loss, Night Sweats, Dyspnea, and Bladder CancerBradley C. Sanville MD0Brooks T. Kuhn MD1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USADivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USAA 56-year-old man presented with subacute night sweats, fever, and weight loss with worsening dyspnea. Computed tomography (CT) scan demonstrated miliary pattern of nodules evenly distributed throughout all lung fields. Given the patient’s CT findings and temporal association with Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) immunotherapy for bladder cancer, the patient was diagnosed with disseminated Mycobacterium bovis secondary to BCG bladder instillations.https://doi.org/10.1177/2324709621997246
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title A 56-Year-Old Male With Weight Loss, Night Sweats, Dyspnea, and Bladder Cancer
title_short A 56-Year-Old Male With Weight Loss, Night Sweats, Dyspnea, and Bladder Cancer
title_full A 56-Year-Old Male With Weight Loss, Night Sweats, Dyspnea, and Bladder Cancer
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description A 56-year-old man presented with subacute night sweats, fever, and weight loss with worsening dyspnea. Computed tomography (CT) scan demonstrated miliary pattern of nodules evenly distributed throughout all lung fields. Given the patient’s CT findings and temporal association with Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) immunotherapy for bladder cancer, the patient was diagnosed with disseminated Mycobacterium bovis secondary to BCG bladder instillations.
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