Trends in the epidemiology of purple urine bag syndrome: A systematic review

Autor: Yu-Jang Su, Hsiu‑Wu Yang
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Biomedical Reports
ISSN: 2049-9442
2049-9434
DOI: 10.3892/br.2018.1046
Popis: Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is rarely observed in clinical practice. The present study aimed to identify the epidemiological trends in PUBS in recent decades. A search of PubMed articles published between 1980 October and 2016 August was conducted, in which 106 articles (174 cases) described PUBS. Of these cases, 58 cases were excluded: 14 cases without mention of gender, 4 cases without description of age, 37 cases without mention of white blood cell (WBC) count, shock status, fever status or description of etiology, and 3 cases without information on mortality. The remaining 116 PUBS cases were collected and analyzed in the present study. The articles were divided into three groups by publication year: 1991 to 2000, 2001 to 2010 and 2011 to 2016. The χ2 test was used for statistical analysis, with P7 while 6.9% of cases had acidic urine (pH
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