Granulomatous myocarditis arising from intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy leading to death diagnosed by postmortem examination: a case report.
Saroja Devi GeethaHector D ChavarriaMohammed AbdelwahedNidhi KatariaVanesa BijolKasturi DasPublished in: Journal of medical case reports (2024)
Granulomatous myocarditis arising from BCG therapy is extremely rare. Our patient with urothelial cancer treated with BCG developed multiorgan granulomas, most likely due to a hypersensitivity reaction to intravesical BCG. Arrhythmia induced by granulomatous myocarditis was the cause of his death. Although there have been few cases of systemic BCG-osis causing fatal sepsis leading to death, a cardiac cause of death is unique.