Olympus medical systems corp.
(omsc) was informed that a patient was infected with urosepsis after cystoscopy using the subject device.
The patient underwent cystoscopy and transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy on (b)(6) 2019, and was discharged from the user facility on the day.
The patient visited the user facility again on (b)(6) 2019, and treatment for urosepsis was commenced.
After that, the patient was then transferred to another user facility and treated with intravenous antibiotics and oral antibiotics.
The patient was discharged from this user facility several days later.
Other detailed information such as the reprocessing method was not provided.
The user facility continues to use the subject device because no other infection was reported.
The user facility mentioned that they believe that the subject device was not the cause of the patient infection.
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