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Whipple Disease

Known as: Disease, Whipple, SPRUE, NONTROPICAL, SECONDARY, disease whipple 
A chronic systemic infection by a gram-positive bacterium, Tropheryma whippelii, mainly affecting the SMALL INTESTINE but also the JOINTS… 
National Institutes of Health

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Lipodystrophy

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2004
2004
Refractory Whipple's disease with anaemia: first lessons from capsule endoscopy.
Whipple's disease is a chronic multisystem disorder caused by infection with the rod-shaped bacterium, Tropheryma whippelii. We… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Whipple disease of the central nervous system.
Whipple disease (WD) is a systemic disorder caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei. Since the recognition of a bacterial… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Intracerebral Whipple disease: unusual location and bone destruction. Case report.
Whipple disease is a rare systemic bacterial infection characterized by migratory polyarthralgia and chronic diarrhea. In 5 to 20… 
2001
2001
An unusual spinal presentation of Whipple disease.
SUMMARY When Whipple disease (WD) is confined to the CNS, diagnosis may be difficult. We report a case of WD with spinal… 
1984
1984
1982 Borden Award lecture. Nutritional, biochemical, and clinical aspects of inositol and phosphatidylinositol metabolism.
Recent advances in nutritional and biochemical research have substantiated the importance of myo-inositol both as a dietary… 
1983
1983
Computed tomography in Whipple disease.
: A case of Whipple disease demonstrated on computed tomography (CT) a large mesenteric mass of low density and thickened folds… 
1982
1982
myo-Inositol action on gerbil intestine. Association of phosphatidylinositol metabolism with lipid clearance.
1976
1976
Pancarditis in Whipple's disease: electronmicroscopic demonstration of intracardiac bacillary bodies.
The advent of electron microscopy has repeatedly confirmed Whipple's original postulate that bacterial infestation might be the… 
1973
1973
Inositol deficiency: an intestinal lipodystrophy in the gerbil.
An intestinal lipodystrophy characterized by accumulation of fat in the intestinal mucosal cells was produced in female gerbils… 
1969
1969
Whipple's disease with cardiac and renal abnormalities.
Heart lesions are common in Whipple's disease (intestinal lipodystrophy)1-3but their occurrence often does not result in… 
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