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A 50-year-old man was admitted with a complicated pneumonia. During his long-term inpatient stay, a plastic urinary catheter was positioned. A month after admission the patient’s urine became purple (Picture 1). The patient was apyretic and did not have lower urinary tract symptoms but was constipated. Urinalysis revealed pH 7.8, leucocyturia and negative nitrites. Urine culture isolated Proteu...

Purple Urine Bag Syndrome (PUBS) refers to the purple discoloration of urine and is commonly observed in bed ridden patients with long-term urinary catheters. Although typically benign, the purple discoloration is alarming to both the patients and their attendants. This case report presents an uncommon case of PUBS in a 60-year-old lady with hypertension, type II diabetes, and chronic kidney di...

CASE A 42-year-old woman presented with a left lower extremity ulcer. Three weeks prior, she had been struck by a motor vehicle and developed bullae on her thigh, the main area of impact. She could not afford to see a primary doctor, and had been applying a low-cost, over-the-counter topical antiseptic solution to the site since the accident. On examination, she had a 26 by 14 centimeter ulcer ...

The purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) i.e. purple discolouration of urine, is an uncommon and alarming condition in patients with long term urinary catheterisation. Though the condition is benign, it should draw immediate attention to the possibility of an underlying urinary tract infection. The postulated hypothesis for this unusual event is probably a chemical reaction involving tryptophan fro...

conclusions according to the appearance of the purple line in most of the cases and its high sensitivity and specificity, we can use it as a non-invasive complementary method for clinical assessment of labor progress. results the purple line appeared in 75.3% of women during the active phase of labor. appearance of the purple line in the prediction of labor progress had 90.2% sensitivity, 45.3%...

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Dilek Ulubaş Işık, Clinic of Neonatology, Etlik Zübeyde Hanım Women’s Health Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 312 567 40 01 e-mail: [email protected] Received: 2 May 2017 Accepted: 25 June 2017 • DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.2017.0480 Available at www.balkanmedicaljournal.org Cite this article as: Işık DU, Demirel N, Erol S, Ünal S, Baş AY...

Commercial biological indicator spore strips in glassine envelopes, produced by three manufacturers, were evaluated by fraction-negative procedures after being heated at 121.0 +/- 0.05 degrees C. Only one type of spore strip met the manufacturer's specifications. The strips of one manufacturer were further evaluated by fraction-negative and survivor curve-plate count procedures after being heat...

The decay rate of the Bacteriorhodopsin (BR) photocycle intermediate M412 and proton, the proton pump efficiency (H+/M412), the ratios of M412 to other intermediates and the rotational correlation time (tauc) in purple membrane (PM) fragments treated by the zwitterionic detergent 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)-dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPS) with different concentrations were studied. The r...

BR* has been the subject of a wide variety of biophysical studies. Particular attractions are its ease of preparation in pure form, the availability of much structural information and its intrinsic chromophore, which facilitates a range of spectroscopic investigations (for review, see Stoeckenius et al., 1979). We have used BR to investigate various aspects of protein diffusion in membranes. In...