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The urinary catheter drainage system with changing color from red to purple and sometimes with differently colored tube and bag in case 3 with purple urine bag syndrome.
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The patient had a purple-colored urine bag 2-3 days following urinary catheterization or changing of the Foley off and on for more than 24 months (Figure 2).
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The longer the PVC bag stayed in use for a patient, the deeper the color purple the bag became, despite changing sterile PVC urine bags from 2 different companies.
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He underwent Foley catheterization due to benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH) and had suffered from PUBS off and on for more than 33 months, before being transferred to this nursing home (Figure 3).
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