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ArticleCureus2022

Systemic Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Infection One Year After Intravesical Immunotherapy Mimicking Sarcoidosis.

Yashswee Kc, Mohit Gupta, Gail E Reid, Ayesha Arif, Elaine Adams

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Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Clinical Presentation, Management, and Outcomes ofOpen forum infectious diseases · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yashswee KcRheumatology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, USA.
Mohit GuptaInternal Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, USA.
Gail E ReidInfectious Disease, Edward Hines, Jr. VA (Veterans Affairs) Hospital, Hines, USA.
Ayesha ArifRheumatology, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA.
Elaine AdamsRheumatology, Edward Hines, Jr. VA (Veterans Affairs) Hospital, Hines, USA.
Loyola University Medical Center · USUniversity of Vermont · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A patient presented with pancytopenia and hypercalcemia after intravesical immunotherapy with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) for bladder cancer. Bone marrow biopsy performed six months later revealed noncaseating granulomas with negative stains for AFB. He was diagnosed with sarcoidosis and treated with prednisone. Hypercalcemia resolved, but mild pancytopenia persisted. One year later, he developed sepsis. Blood cultures six weeks later grew Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, ultimately identified as Mycobacterium bovis. Despite triple antibiotic therapy, the patient progressively declined and expired.

Indexed as

bacillus calmette-guerin infectionintravesical immunotherapym. bovisnon-caseating granulomasarcoidosis “likesevere hypercalcemia

Identifiers

PMID36561593
PMCPMC9767275
OpenAlexW4309546174

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