ALLMedicine™ Whipple Disease Center

Feb 25th, 2022 - To help clarify the clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment for Whipple disease, we report a case of a man in China infected with Tropheryma whipplei. The patient had multiple subcutaneous nodules as the only manifestation, which was not...

Feb 12th, 2022 - Whipple's disease (WD) is a rare infectious disease with a wide clinical spectrum. Associated thrombotic manifestations are not well described in WD, only related to 'stroke-like syndrome'. We present a case of a 39-year-old man with a 1-year hist...

Dec 8th, 2021 - Background Mitral stenosis (MS) is characterized by obstruction to left ventricular inflow at the level of mitral valve due to structural abnormality of the mitral valve apparatus. The most common cause of mitral stenosis is rheumatic fever. The a...

Dec 8th, 2021 - Background Mitral stenosis (MS) is characterized by obstruction to left ventricular inflow at the level of mitral valve due to structural abnormality of the mitral valve apparatus. The most common cause of mitral stenosis is rheumatic fever. The a...

Dec 8th, 2021 - Background Mitral stenosis (MS) is characterized by obstruction to left ventricular inflow at the level of mitral valve due to structural abnormality of the mitral valve apparatus. The most common cause of mitral stenosis is rheumatic fever. The a...

Aug 17th, 2016 - Since the first isolation of a strain of Tropheryma whipplei (T. whipplei) and the development of molecular tools, the natural history of this bacterium continued to clarify. The currently proposed scheme is as follows: after contamination human o...

Apr 4th, 2011 - Presentation A 26-year-old woman presents for an evaluation and better definition of a 3-year history of progressive abdominal pain and distension, fatigue, pancytopenia, leg swelling, and pain. Past Medical History The patient has already had an ...