Whipple's disease classification
|
Whipple's disease Microchapters |
|
Diagnosis |
|---|
|
Treatment |
|
Case Studies |
|
Whipple's disease classification On the Web |
|
American Roentgen Ray Society Images of Whipple's disease classification |
|
Risk calculators and risk factors for Whipple's disease classification |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sadaf Sharfaei M.D.[2]
Overview
Whipple’s disease may be classified into 4 groups based on clinical manifestation: Acute infection, asymptomatic carrier state, the classic Whipple’s disease, and localized chronic infection.
Classification
- Tropheryma whipplei infection may be classified to 4 groups based on the clinical manifestation:[1] [2]
- Acute infection like gastroenteritis, bacteremia, pneumonia and other
- Asymptomatic carrier state
- The classic Whipple’s disease
- Localized chronic infection including endocarditis, encephalitis, uveitis, osteoarthritis, lymphadenopathy or pulmonary involvement
| Whipple's disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Acute | Chronic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gastroenteritis | Pneumonia | Bacteremia | Other | Asymptomatic carrier state | Classic Whipple's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Localized involvement | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Heart | CNS | Eye | Other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | Bone | Serosa | Skin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ Marth, Thomas (2009). "New Insights into Whipple's Disease – A Rare Intestinal Inflammatory Disorder". Digestive Diseases. 27 (4): 494–501. doi:10.1159/000233288. ISSN 1421-9875.
- ↑ Street, Sara; Donoghue, Helen D; Neild, GH (1999). "Tropheryma whippelii DNA in saliva of healthy people". The Lancet. 354 (9185): 1178–1179. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(99)03065-2. ISSN 0140-6736.