Purple Urine Bag Syndrome: A Rare and Surprising Clinical Presentation

Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is a rare finding that can be very alarming to patients and physicians. PUBS has a simple visual diagnosis with clinical symptoms that can aid in a quick and appropriate treatment plan. However, a lack of physician awareness could be harmful to the patient and cause...

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Autores principales: DeRon, Nathan, Legan, Carley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9897695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36751160
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33354
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description Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is a rare finding that can be very alarming to patients and physicians. PUBS has a simple visual diagnosis with clinical symptoms that can aid in a quick and appropriate treatment plan. However, a lack of physician awareness could be harmful to the patient and cause unnecessary treatment and increased morbidity and financial burden to the patient. We present a case with this surprising finding and discuss the pathophysiology and management options for this rare syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-98976952023-02-06 Purple Urine Bag Syndrome: A Rare and Surprising Clinical Presentation DeRon, Nathan Legan, Carley Cureus Internal Medicine Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is a rare finding that can be very alarming to patients and physicians. PUBS has a simple visual diagnosis with clinical symptoms that can aid in a quick and appropriate treatment plan. However, a lack of physician awareness could be harmful to the patient and cause unnecessary treatment and increased morbidity and financial burden to the patient. We present a case with this surprising finding and discuss the pathophysiology and management options for this rare syndrome. Cureus 2023-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9897695/ /pubmed/36751160 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33354 Text en Copyright © 2023, DeRon et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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