Purple urine bag syndrome in an elderly patient from Colombia

A 71-year-old woman in a nursing home, with indwelling urinary catheter, bedridden, presented with a purple urine collector bag. The purple urine bag syndrome is a rare condition associated with the metabolism of tryptophan by overgrowth of intestinal bacteria. The purple color is formed by a combin...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of infection in developing countries 2015-07, Vol.9 (7), p.792-795
Hauptverfasser:	Mondragón-Cardona, Alvaro, Jiménez-Canizales, Carlos Eduardo, Alzate-Carvajal, Verónica, Bastidas-Rivera, Fabricio, Sepúlveda-Arias, Juan Carlos
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Bacterial Infections - diagnosis Bacterial Infections - pathology Case reports Catheter-Related Infections - diagnosis Catheter-Related Infections - pathology Chemical Phenomena Ciprofloxacin - therapeutic use Colombia Color Diagnosis, Differential Enterococcus faecalis - isolation & purification Escherichia coli - isolation & purification Female Humans Hydrogen-Ion Concentration Pigments, Biological - analysis Proteus mirabilis - isolation & purification Treatment Outcome Urinary Tract Infections - diagnosis Urinary Tract Infections - pathology Urine Urine - chemistry
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