Purple Urine Bag Syndrome in Two Elderly Men with Urinary Tract Infection
Purple urine bag syndrome is a rare condition in which purple discoloration of urine inside its collection bag occurs. We describe two illustrative cases. The first patient is an 81-year-old man who was hospitalized for a newly diagnosed lymphoma with acute obstructive renal failure for which a neph...
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| description | Purple urine bag syndrome is a rare condition in which purple discoloration of urine inside its collection bag occurs. We describe two illustrative cases. The first patient is an 81-year-old man who was hospitalized for a newly diagnosed lymphoma with acute obstructive renal failure for which a nephrostomy procedure was performed. During the hospitalization, a sudden purple discoloration of the suprapubic catheter urine was noted, while the nephrostomy urine had a normal color. Urine culture from the suprapubic catheter was positive for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterococcus faecalis; urine from the nephrostomy was sterile. The second case is an 80-year-old man who was admitted for heart failure with cardiorenal dilemma and who was started on intermittent hemodialysis. There was a sudden purple discoloration of the urine in the collection bag from his indwelling catheter. He was diagnosed with an E. coli urinary infection and treated with amoxicillin and removal of the indwelling catheter. These two cases illustrate the typical characteristics of purple urine bag syndrome. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-68a46df8f0844c96bc86d96404361a752025-02-03T05:51:26ZengWileyCase Reports in Nephrology2090-66412090-665X2015-01-01201510.1155/2015/746981746981Purple Urine Bag Syndrome in Two Elderly Men with Urinary Tract InfectionJan Van Keer0Daan Detroyer1Bert Bammens2Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, BelgiumDepartment of Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, BelgiumDepartment of Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, BelgiumPurple urine bag syndrome is a rare condition in which purple discoloration of urine inside its collection bag occurs. We describe two illustrative cases. The first patient is an 81-year-old man who was hospitalized for a newly diagnosed lymphoma with acute obstructive renal failure for which a nephrostomy procedure was performed. During the hospitalization, a sudden purple discoloration of the suprapubic catheter urine was noted, while the nephrostomy urine had a normal color. Urine culture from the suprapubic catheter was positive for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterococcus faecalis; urine from the nephrostomy was sterile. The second case is an 80-year-old man who was admitted for heart failure with cardiorenal dilemma and who was started on intermittent hemodialysis. There was a sudden purple discoloration of the urine in the collection bag from his indwelling catheter. He was diagnosed with an E. coli urinary infection and treated with amoxicillin and removal of the indwelling catheter. These two cases illustrate the typical characteristics of purple urine bag syndrome.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/746981 |
| spellingShingle | Jan Van Keer Daan Detroyer Bert Bammens Purple Urine Bag Syndrome in Two Elderly Men with Urinary Tract Infection Case Reports in Nephrology |
| title | Purple Urine Bag Syndrome in Two Elderly Men with Urinary Tract Infection |
| title_full | Purple Urine Bag Syndrome in Two Elderly Men with Urinary Tract Infection |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Purple Urine Bag Syndrome in Two Elderly Men with Urinary Tract Infection |
| title_short | Purple Urine Bag Syndrome in Two Elderly Men with Urinary Tract Infection |
| title_sort | purple urine bag syndrome in two elderly men with urinary tract infection |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/746981 |
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