Een man met roze urine

A 44-year-old male was submitted to the Intensive Care Unit after a drug intoxication with respiratory depression. Pink urine was observed after 20 hours of use of propofol for sedation. This phenomena is named ‘pink urine syndrome’ and is occasionally seen after sedation with propofol caused by an upregulated urate excretion in the urine.

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