Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is a rare, relatively unknown and mostly innocuous complication of bladder catheterization. It is caused by a combined gut-microbiota tryptophan metabolism, aided by the patient’s liver metabolization by conjugation, followed by bladder-colonizing bacteria that further degrade those tryptophan-metabolites, increasing indigo and indirubin purple pigments in urine.

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