Purple urine bag syndrome, not always a benign process
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Ming-Shyan Huang, MD, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
1These 2 authors equally contribute in this work.
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Fig. 1
Two patients had PUBS progressed to Fourier’s gangrene in Taiwan.
The subject of the case report presented by Su et al [1] is quite interesting as authors described a patient that was sent to the emergency department in critical condition upon arrival, and purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) was also found at that time. Finally, the patient died of aspiration pneumonia and septic shock in the intensive care unit. The case report described the first case of PUBS that occurred involving a patient in critical condition. The authors claimed that PUBS was not the leading cause of mortality in this case.
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