TY - JOUR AU - Sereno, Maria AU - Gomez-Raposo, Cesar AU - Gutierrez-Gutierrez, Gerardo AU - Lopez-Gomez, Miriam AU - Casado, Enrique PY - 2020/08/11 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Severe emphysematous cystitis: Outcome after seven days of antibiotics JF - McGill Journal of Medicine JA - McGill J Med VL - 13 IS - 1 SE - Case Report DO - 10.26443/mjm.v13i1.250 UR - https://mjm.mcgill.ca/article/view/250 SP - AB - We present the case of a 70-year-old woman with emphysematous cys- titis. She was a diabetic patient and she was on chemotherapy treatment for a breast  cancer. She complaint of severe asthenia and pain in her right lower extremity, but no fever or urinary symptoms. A computed tomography (CT) scan was suggestive of severe emphysematous cystitis. Emphysematous cystitis is a rare clinically entity, more commonly seen in diabetic, immunocompromised patients. A conservative  treatment approach using antibiotics and bladder catheterization is typically suc- cessful, with a complication rate less than 20%. ER -