Adjustments in the Use of Intravesical Instillations of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin for High-risk Non-muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer patients with COVID-19 are more likely to develop acute respiratory distress syndrome. Thus, several adjustments to the use of intravesical instillations of bacillus Calmette-Guérin should be made during the current pandemic to limit the risk of contamination.

European urology. 2020 Apr 24 [Epub ahead of print]

Lenfant Louis, Seisen Thomas, Loriot Yohann, Rouprêt Morgan

Sorbonne University, GRC 5 Predictive onco-uro, APHP, Urology, Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital, 75013 Paris, France., Department of Cancer Medicine, Gustave Roussy Institute, University Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France., Sorbonne University, GRC 5 Predictive onco-uro, APHP, Urology, Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital, 75013 Paris, France. Electronic address: .