Life-threatening meningitis resulting from transrectal prostate biopsy

• 来源期刊: 亚洲男性学杂志(英文版)
• 年，卷（期）: 2005,（4）
• 页码范围: 453-455
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

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.