Purple urine bag syndrome.
case_report · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.4103/2249-4863.109970 and PMC identifier PMC266835.
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Abstract
Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is rare disease entity, occurs predominantly in constipated women, chronically catheterized and associated with bacterial urinary infections that produce sulphatase/phosphatase. The etiology is due to indigo (blue) and indirubin (red) or to their mixture that becomes purple. We present a case report of this rare phenomenon occurring in an 86-year-old woman.