Previously published Photo Quizzes are now featured in a mobile app. Get more information at http:// www.aafp.org/afp/apps. A 50-year-old woman presented for a routine catheter change. The patient was wheelchairbound because of a history of transverse myelitis. She had urinary incontinence and was dependent on chronic urinary catheterization. The patient had no symptoms beyond discolored urine....

INTRODUCTION The aim of the trial was to estimate the relationship between colonization of the Double-J catheter, and the microorganisms cultured from urine. MATERIAL AND METHODS 60 patients, who had Double-J catheters inserted, participated in the study. All the subjects had their midstream urine samples taken prior to the stent insertion and removal. A negative urine culture before catheter...

Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS), as the name implies produces purplish discoloration of the urine. It is commonly observed among elderly women with constipation, and individuals with long term catheter in the setting of urinary tract infection (UTI). From the literature research, there were no publications on PUBS in Malaysia; however we believe that it is underreported. We present a unique ca...

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...

INTRODUCTION Suprapubic cystostomy is performed in spinal cord injury patients in order to prevent complications associated with long-term urethral catheter drainage. We report a patient in whom suprapubic catheter did not drain urine satisfactorily and imaging studies revealed hourglass bladder. CASE PRESENTATION A female patient sustained paraplegia in a traffic accident in 1994 at the age ...

ter was passed, and about a pint of urine was removed. No stone was detected. As he still had difficulty in passing urine naturally, a soft catheter was again passed without difficulty. His urine contained mucus and phosphates. He was orderd tonics, strychnia, and good diet, while the bladder was regularly washed out with boracie lotion. His condition remained unaffected by this treatment. He w...

Background and Objective: Despite the critical importance of catheter as an indwelling medical device, its prolonged utilization in hospitalized patients may lead to infection. This study aimed to identify distribution of uropathogenic bacteria isolated from catheterized uro-oncology patients, their biofilm production, and antimicrobial resistance patterns to generally -used antibiotics. Mater...

PURPOSE We report on our experience with the Memotherm stent implanted in high-risk patients who had an indwelling catheter. PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventeen patients (mean age 80.6 years, range 55 to 93) who had an indwelling catheter were treated by placement of the Memotherm stent. The mean duration time of indwelling catheter were 12.7 months (range 1 to 60). The methods of implantation was...