Diagnostic difficulties in a patient with Whipple’s disease

Wiesława Rogoza-Mateja; Dariusz Bielicki; Andrzej Smereczyński; Stanisław Woyke; Halina Jaroszewicz-Heigelmann; Teresa Starzyńska

doi:10.5114/pg.2010.14447

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Gastroenterology Review/Przegląd Gastroenterologiczny

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Case report

Diagnostic difficulties in a patient with Whipple’s disease

Wiesława Rogoza-Mateja

,

Dariusz Bielicki

,

Andrzej Smereczyński

,

Stanisław Woyke

,

Halina Jaroszewicz-Heigelmann

,

Teresa Starzyńska

Przegląd Gastroenterologiczny 2010; 5 (4): 222–225

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/pg.2010.14447

Online publish date: 2010/09/07

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Whipple’s disease is an infectious systemic illness. The symptoms (arthralgias, weight loss, diarrhoea and abdominal pain) are not specific, which causes diagnostic difficulties. Despite the illness being well known for over a hundred years there are only about 1000 cases described in the literature. We report a patient with Whipple’s disease with a review of recent diagnostic and therapeutic strategy.

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Diagnostic difficulties in a patient with Whipple’s disease

Wiesława Rogoza-Mateja , Dariusz Bielicki , Andrzej Smereczyński , Stanisław Woyke , Halina Jaroszewicz-Heigelmann , Teresa Starzyńska

Whipple’s disease, diagnosis, treatment

Wiesława Rogoza-Mateja

,

Dariusz Bielicki

,

Andrzej Smereczyński

,

Stanisław Woyke

,

Halina Jaroszewicz-Heigelmann

,

Teresa Starzyńska