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Purple urine bag syndrome: A case report and review of literature
Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is an infrequent condition, seen mostly in elderly female patients, characterized by an intense purple discoloration of contents of urine bag following long-term indwelling urinary catheterization. The purple discoloration is most often due to the presence of indigo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3658294/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23716923 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.109442 |
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author | Yaqub, S. Mohkum, S. Mukhtar, K. N. |
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description | Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is an infrequent condition, seen mostly in elderly female patients, characterized by an intense purple discoloration of contents of urine bag following long-term indwelling urinary catheterization. The purple discoloration is most often due to the presence of indigo and indirubin pigments which are metabolites of tryptophan. Urinary bacteria with indoxyl sulphatase activity metabolize indoxyl sulphate to produce indigo and indirubin, particularly in alkaline urine. We report an elderly woman with a urinary tract infection and constipation who presented with PUBS. The purple urine disappeared after antibiotic therapy and change of the urine bag. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of PUBS reported from this region. |
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spelling | pubmed-36582942013-05-28 Purple urine bag syndrome: A case report and review of literature Yaqub, S. Mohkum, S. Mukhtar, K. N. Indian J Nephrol Case Report Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is an infrequent condition, seen mostly in elderly female patients, characterized by an intense purple discoloration of contents of urine bag following long-term indwelling urinary catheterization. The purple discoloration is most often due to the presence of indigo and indirubin pigments which are metabolites of tryptophan. Urinary bacteria with indoxyl sulphatase activity metabolize indoxyl sulphate to produce indigo and indirubin, particularly in alkaline urine. We report an elderly woman with a urinary tract infection and constipation who presented with PUBS. The purple urine disappeared after antibiotic therapy and change of the urine bag. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of PUBS reported from this region. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3658294/ /pubmed/23716923 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.109442 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nephrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Yaqub, S. Mohkum, S. Mukhtar, K. N. Purple urine bag syndrome: A case report and review of literature |
title | Purple urine bag syndrome: A case report and review of literature |
title_full | Purple urine bag syndrome: A case report and review of literature |
title_fullStr | Purple urine bag syndrome: A case report and review of literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Purple urine bag syndrome: A case report and review of literature |
title_short | Purple urine bag syndrome: A case report and review of literature |
title_sort | purple urine bag syndrome: a case report and review of literature |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3658294/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23716923 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.109442 |
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