An Incidental Finding of Whipple’s Disease Masquerading as Nonspecific, Long-Standing Symptoms
Whipple’s disease is a rare bacterial infection that is often present for years prior to diagnosis. Symptoms are nonspecific in the early stages of presentation and are primarily gastrointestinal in nature. The disease may progress with more systemic symptoms including arthralgia, fever, lymphadenop...
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| description | Whipple’s disease is a rare bacterial infection that is often present for years prior to diagnosis. Symptoms are nonspecific in the early stages of presentation and are primarily gastrointestinal in nature. The disease may progress with more systemic symptoms including arthralgia, fever, lymphadenopathy, cardiovascular disease, and central nervous system involvement. This case describes a man with a history of long-standing, nonspecific symptoms who only began to show significant improvement after an incidental finding of Whipple’s disease. Due to its rare nature, other instances of the disease have likely gone undiagnosed. A brief review of relevant literature is also included. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e272827a4a24432c8916a3d5574611f52025-01-04T00:00:05ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66332024-01-01202410.1155/crdi/3177799An Incidental Finding of Whipple’s Disease Masquerading as Nonspecific, Long-Standing SymptomsThomas Tuggle0Alison I. Orvin1Christian Caveness2Christopher Ingram3Department of PharmacyDepartment of PharmacyDepartment of PharmacyWakeMed’s Division of Infectious DiseasesWhipple’s disease is a rare bacterial infection that is often present for years prior to diagnosis. Symptoms are nonspecific in the early stages of presentation and are primarily gastrointestinal in nature. The disease may progress with more systemic symptoms including arthralgia, fever, lymphadenopathy, cardiovascular disease, and central nervous system involvement. This case describes a man with a history of long-standing, nonspecific symptoms who only began to show significant improvement after an incidental finding of Whipple’s disease. Due to its rare nature, other instances of the disease have likely gone undiagnosed. A brief review of relevant literature is also included.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/crdi/3177799 |
| spellingShingle | Thomas Tuggle Alison I. Orvin Christian Caveness Christopher Ingram An Incidental Finding of Whipple’s Disease Masquerading as Nonspecific, Long-Standing Symptoms Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | An Incidental Finding of Whipple’s Disease Masquerading as Nonspecific, Long-Standing Symptoms |
| title_full | An Incidental Finding of Whipple’s Disease Masquerading as Nonspecific, Long-Standing Symptoms |
| title_fullStr | An Incidental Finding of Whipple’s Disease Masquerading as Nonspecific, Long-Standing Symptoms |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Incidental Finding of Whipple’s Disease Masquerading as Nonspecific, Long-Standing Symptoms |
| title_short | An Incidental Finding of Whipple’s Disease Masquerading as Nonspecific, Long-Standing Symptoms |
| title_sort | incidental finding of whipple s disease masquerading as nonspecific long standing symptoms |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/crdi/3177799 |
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