Gentleman with the Purple Urine

A 50-year-old man was found to have purple discoloration of the urine. He was on long-term urinary catheterization. He was asymptomatic, and urinalysis did not suggest a urinary tract infection. Purple urine bag syndrome resolved with a change of the urinary catheter and bag. He was prescribed regul...

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Autores principales: Ong, Chong Yau, Vasanwala, Farhad Fakhrudin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Academy of Family Medicine 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7093672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32208404
http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.18.0083
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description A 50-year-old man was found to have purple discoloration of the urine. He was on long-term urinary catheterization. He was asymptomatic, and urinalysis did not suggest a urinary tract infection. Purple urine bag syndrome resolved with a change of the urinary catheter and bag. He was prescribed regular laxatives and passed stools regularly.
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spelling pubmed-70936722020-04-02 Gentleman with the Purple Urine Ong, Chong Yau Vasanwala, Farhad Fakhrudin Korean J Fam Med Case Report A 50-year-old man was found to have purple discoloration of the urine. He was on long-term urinary catheterization. He was asymptomatic, and urinalysis did not suggest a urinary tract infection. Purple urine bag syndrome resolved with a change of the urinary catheter and bag. He was prescribed regular laxatives and passed stools regularly. Korean Academy of Family Medicine 2020-03 2020-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7093672/ /pubmed/32208404 http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.18.0083 Text en Copyright © 2020 The Korean Academy of Family Medicine This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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