Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Whipple's disease
- systemic disease
- GI
- arthralgia
- infiltration of tissues by Tropheryma whippelii
- Gram +ve
- disordered host response
- immunocompromised individuals
- male: female 9:1
- imaging
- thickened folds
- no dilatation
- no ulceration
- bulky abdominal nodes
- sand-like nodules
- fatal within 1 year if not recognised and treated