Purple urine bag syndrome: An unusual but important manifestation of urinary tract infection. Case report and literature review

Purple urine bag syndrome is a rare albeit alarming purple discolouration of the urine typically seen in elderly ladies with constipation, urinary tract infection and concurrent urinary catheterisation. In this concise review, we report the pathophysiology of this condition and the case of one patie...

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Autor principal: Worku, Dominic Adam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6349982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30719299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X18823105
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spelling pubmed-63499822019-02-04 Purple urine bag syndrome: An unusual but important manifestation of urinary tract infection. Case report and literature review Worku, Dominic Adam SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report Purple urine bag syndrome is a rare albeit alarming purple discolouration of the urine typically seen in elderly ladies with constipation, urinary tract infection and concurrent urinary catheterisation. In this concise review, we report the pathophysiology of this condition and the case of one patient who developed this interesting phenomenon. SAGE Publications 2019-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6349982/ /pubmed/30719299 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X18823105 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title Purple urine bag syndrome: An unusual but important manifestation of urinary tract infection. Case report and literature review
title_full Purple urine bag syndrome: An unusual but important manifestation of urinary tract infection. Case report and literature review
title_fullStr Purple urine bag syndrome: An unusual but important manifestation of urinary tract infection. Case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Purple urine bag syndrome: An unusual but important manifestation of urinary tract infection. Case report and literature review
title_short Purple urine bag syndrome: An unusual but important manifestation of urinary tract infection. Case report and literature review
title_sort purple urine bag syndrome: an unusual but important manifestation of urinary tract infection. case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6349982/
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