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Life-threatening meningitis resulting from transrectal prostate biopsy.

Shen ZJ, Chen SW, Wang H, Zhou XL, Zhao JP

Department of Urology, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200025, China. shenzhj@mail.hz.zj.cn

After antibiotic prophylaxis with metronidazole and levofloxacin, a transrectal sextant biopsy was performed under the guide of transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) for a 75-year-old suspicious patient with prostate adenocarcinoma. Although antibiotics were also given after this procedure, the patient still developed fever, anxious, agrypnia and headache. Blood cultures remained negative. Lumbar puncture was performed and was consistent with Escherichia coli bacterial meningitis.

Published 10 November 2005 in Asian J Androl, 7(4): 453-5.
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