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Over 20,000 Veterans who have undergone prostate biopsies with a specific instrument, the "B-K Medical transrectal ultrasound transducer", have been contacted because sterilization of that equipment may have been inadequate, leading to risk of Hepatitis, HIV and other infections. 
 
Those affected can be tested for no cost. 
 
Only 16 of the VA's 154 hospitals are affected, with the others using different equipment for their biopsies. 
 
The problem occurred because the sterilization instructions provided by the manufacturer did not clearly specify the proper procedure. 
 

VA biopsies could have infected men

Dickson Herald - 4/29/2006 3:20 AM

More than 300 Tennessee veterans could be at risk of infections, including HIV, after improperly sterilized equipment might have been used on them during their prostate biopsies at the VA hospital in Nashville.
 
Officials with the Tennessee Department of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs stressed that the chance of becoming infected is very low. But as a precaution, letters were sent to everyone who had a prostate biopsy performed with a specific device called a B-K Medical transrectal ultrasound transducer
 
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