A PUBS Case in a Palliative Care Unit Experience

Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is a rare condition in which purple discoloration of the collecting bag and its associated tubing occurs. It is considered a benign condition. PUBS is usually associated with urinary tract infection occurring in elderly bedridden women, with chronic urinary catheteri...

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Autores principales: Restuccia, M. R., Blasi, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25317348
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/169782
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description Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is a rare condition in which purple discoloration of the collecting bag and its associated tubing occurs. It is considered a benign condition. PUBS is usually associated with urinary tract infection occurring in elderly bedridden women, with chronic urinary catheterization. This syndrome is usually reported to occur in alkaline urine, but here we describe a rare case of PUBS involving acidic urine.
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spelling pubmed-41818992014-10-14 A PUBS Case in a Palliative Care Unit Experience Restuccia, M. R. Blasi, M. Case Rep Oncol Med Case Report Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is a rare condition in which purple discoloration of the collecting bag and its associated tubing occurs. It is considered a benign condition. PUBS is usually associated with urinary tract infection occurring in elderly bedridden women, with chronic urinary catheterization. This syndrome is usually reported to occur in alkaline urine, but here we describe a rare case of PUBS involving acidic urine. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4181899/ /pubmed/25317348 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/169782 Text en Copyright © 2014 M. R. Restuccia and M. Blasi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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