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ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2019

Hepatic Injury without Granulomatous Formation Associated with Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Therapy.

Hiroshi Okano, Hiroki Asakawa, Kenji Nose, Satomi Tsuruga, Tomomasa Tochio, Hiroaki Kumazawa, Yoshiaki Isono, Hiroki Tanaka, Shimpei Matsusaki, Tomohiro Sase and 6 more

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Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Hiroshi OkanoDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Hiroki AsakawaDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Kenji NoseDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Satomi TsurugaDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Tomomasa TochioDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Hiroaki KumazawaDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Yoshiaki IsonoDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Hiroki TanakaDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Shimpei MatsusakiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Tomohiro SaseDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Tomonori SaitoDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Katsumi MukaiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Akira NishimuraDepartment of Gastroenterology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Miki UsuiDepartment of Pathology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Youichirou BabaDepartment of Pathology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.
Tetsuya MurataDepartment of Pathology, Suzuka General Hospital, Japan.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 74-year-old man developed hepatic injury after intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy for bladder carcinoma. Although hepatitis-associated disseminated BCG was suspected, granulomatous formations were undetectable. The hepatic injury was considered to have resulted from an allergic reaction to BCG therapy because a histopathological assessment revealed enlarged portal areas with eosinophils and neutrophils. The hepatic injury was resolved by prednisolone. This case suggested that hepatic injury associated with BCG therapy might be due to an allergic mechanism unrelated to disseminated BCG disease. A liver biopsy is needed to confirm the histopathological findings of hepatic injury after BCG therapy in order to differentiate allergic hepatic injury from infectious hepatic injury.

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Administration, IntravesicalAgedBCG VaccineHepatitisHumansHypersensitivityLiverMalePrednisoloneTreatment OutcomeUrinary Bladder NeoplasmsBCG VaccinePrednisoloneallergic mechanismbladder carcinomacomplicationliver biopsysteroid

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PMID30626835
PMCPMC6548914

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