Meeting
Abstract Number: 914
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Background: Patients with catheter-associated UTI may have flank pain, suprapubic or costovertebral tenderness. The purple color of urine in patients with a UTI is due to metabolic products of biochemical reactions formed by bacterial enzymes in the urine.Case Presentation: An 84-year-old man with a past medical history of metastatic prostate cancer complicated by […]
Abstract Number: C48
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 78 year old female with history of chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 4, diet-controlled diabetes, and bilateral idiopathic ureteral obstruction s/p percutaneous nephrostomies presented with 5 days of changes in urine color. Initially, the patent reported a darker and thicker appearance to her urine that transitioned to a purple color. She denied […]