Whipple's disease

The condition has since come to be called Whipple's disease.

Whipple's disease is significantly more common in men, with 87% of the patients being male.

Death due to treated Whipple's disease is now rate.

This is the first reported example of extraintestinal lymphoma in association with Whipple's disease.

Before the introduction of antibiotic treatment Whipple's disease was universally fatal.

We've also got a woman with Whipple's Disease, she's been dying for the past three years, refuses to let go.

Whipple's disease, or intestinal lipodystrophy, is a rare chronic systemic illness.

Park is still pressing for Whipple's disease, but House notes there is no joint pain.

A 45 year old man is reported on with Whipple's disease who presented with weight loss, lethargy, and ascites.

The syndrome of anti-Ma2 encephalitis may be clinically mistaken for Whipple's disease.

These workers have designed primers to the organism, and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple's disease.

Some sources also include Behcet's disease and Whipple's disease.

Recent expert opinion is that Whipple's disease should be treated with doxycycline with hydroxychloroquine for 12 to 18 months.

There is evidence of both an associated humoral and cellular immune defect in Whipple's disease, but no uniform abnormality has been shown.

Whipple's disease, a rare bacterial disease (first described by George Whipple)

Whipple's disease is a rare, systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei.

When recognized and treated, Whipple's disease can usually be cured with long-term antibiotic therapy; untreated, the disease is ultimately fatal.

Sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, and Whipple's disease can also resemble RA.

Pancreatic insufficiency, short bowel syndrome, Whipple's disease, coeliac disease, and laxative abuse should also be considered.

Common clinical signs and symptoms of Whipple's disease include weight loss, joint pain or arthritis, diarrhea, skin rashes, fever, and adenopathy.

Thus, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, Whipple's disease and celiac sprue can all cause hypomagnesemia.

Intestinal Lipodystrophy (Whipple's Disease)

Jejunal biopsy showed the typical features of Whipple's disease, with PAS positive macrophages (Fig 3).

There is dispute about the cause of Beethoven's death: alcoholic cirrhosis, syphilis, infectious hepatitis, lead poisoning, sarcoidosis and Whipple's disease have all been proposed.

Tropheryma whipplei, formerly called Tropheryma whippelii, is a bacterium and the causative organism of Whipple's disease.