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{{Whipple's disease}}
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|[[image:LowKECG.png|thumb|700px|center|An ECG in a person with a potassium level of 1.1 showing the classical ECG changes of ST segment depression, inverted T waves, large U waves, and a slightly prolonged PR interval. By James Heilman, MD - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0]]
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==Overview==
[[image:LowKECG.png|thumb|700px|right|An ECG in a person with a potassium level of 1.1 showing the classical ECG changes of ST segment depression, inverted T waves, large U waves, and a slightly prolonged PR interval. By James Heilman, MD - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0]]
Patients with Whipple's disease have varied presentation. Most common symptoms of the classical Whipple's disease include [[joint pain]], [[weight loss]], [[diarrhea]], and [[arthropathy]]. Other organ systems can be involved in Whipple's disease including [[central nervous system]], [[cardiac]] system, [[renal]] system, [[skeletal]], [[muscles]] and [[pulmonary]] system.
* Chest x-ray often shows [[pleural effusion]] , pulmonary infiltration, or granulomatous mediastinal adenopathy. Often abdominal lymph nodes may be involved.
'''Hematological finding'''
* [[anemia]] which may be due to malabsorption or mucointestinal bleeding.<ref name="pmid11432814">{{cite journal| author=Dutly F, Altwegg M| title=Whipple's disease and "Tropheryma whippelii". | journal=Clin Microbiol Rev | year= 2001 | volume= 14 | issue= 3 | pages= 561-83 | pmid=11432814 | doi=10.1128/CMR.14.3.561-583.2001 | pmc=88990 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=11432814 }} </ref>
'''Cutaneous finding'''
* [[melanoderma]] : less frequently reported these days as Whipple's disease is increasingly recognized early. <ref name="pmid17202456">{{cite journal| author=Fenollar F, Puéchal X, Raoult D| title=Whipple's disease. | journal=N Engl J Med | year= 2007 | volume= 356 | issue= 1 | pages= 55-66 | pmid=17202456 | doi=10.1056/NEJMra062477 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=17202456 }} </ref>
'''Renal involvemen'''t : late in course, may be seen rarely. <ref name="pmid17202456">{{cite journal| author=Fenollar F, Puéchal X, Raoult D| title=Whipple's disease. | journal=N Engl J Med | year= 2007 | volume= 356 | issue= 1 | pages= 55-66 | pmid=17202456 | doi=10.1056/NEJMra062477 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=17202456 }} </ref>
==References==
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Latest revision as of 02:27, 23 May 2019
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An ECG in a person with a potassium level of 1.1 showing the classical ECG changes of ST segment depression, inverted T waves, large U waves, and a slightly prolonged PR interval. By James Heilman, MD - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
An ECG in a person with a potassium level of 1.1 showing the classical ECG changes of ST segment depression, inverted T waves, large U waves, and a slightly prolonged PR interval. By James Heilman, MD - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
