Purple urine bag syndrome.
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.
Family Medicine Diploma, University of Science and Technology, Chittagong, Family Physician, Sofia Ismail Memorial Medical Centre, Bogra, Bangladesh.
Ahmed
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Al Montasir
Diploma in Orthopaedic Surgery University of Rajshahi, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Sofia Ismail Memorial Medical Centre, Bangladesh.
Ahmed
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Al Mustaque
Chronic urinary catheterisation; indigo; indirubin; purple urine bag syndrome; urinary tract infection