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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases > Malabsorption Syndromes > Whipple Disease
Digestive System Diseases > Gastrointestinal Diseases > Intestinal Diseases > Malabsorption Syndromes > Whipple Disease
... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections > Actinomycetales Infections > Actinomycosis > Whipple Disease

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Whipple Disease  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Disease, Whipple's
  • Intestinal Lipodystrophy
  • Lipodystrophy, Intestinal
  • Whipple's Disease
  • Whipples Disease

Scope note

  • A chronic systemic infection by a gram-positive bacterium, Tropheryma whippelii, mainly affecting the SMALL INTESTINE but also the JOINTS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; and the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. The disease is characterized by fat deposits in the INTESTINAL MUCOSA and LYMPH NODES, malabsorption, DIARRHEA with fatty stools, MALNUTRITION, and ARTHRITIS.

History note

  • 2004 (1996); use LIPODYSTROPHY, INTESTINAL 1963-1995

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008061

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