A case of Whipple's disease evolving over 30 years

Med Mal Infect. 2014 Jul;44(7):331-3. doi: 10.1016/j.medmal.2014.06.002. Epub 2014 Jul 9.
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Keywords: Chronic constrictive pericarditis; Endocardite; Endocarditis; Hypertension artérielle pulmonaire; Pulmonary hypertension; Péricardite chronique constrictive; Tropheryma whipplei.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Antibodies, Bacterial / immunology
  • Aortic Valve Insufficiency / drug therapy
  • Aortic Valve Insufficiency / etiology
  • Aortic Valve Insufficiency / surgery
  • Biopsy
  • Disease Progression
  • Doxycycline / therapeutic use
  • Duodenum / pathology
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation
  • Humans
  • Hydroxychloroquine / therapeutic use
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / etiology
  • Immunoenzyme Techniques
  • Lymph Nodes / pathology
  • Male
  • Medication Adherence
  • Middle Aged
  • Pericarditis, Constrictive / etiology
  • Pericarditis, Constrictive / microbiology
  • Pericarditis, Constrictive / surgery
  • Recurrence
  • Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination / therapeutic use
  • Tropheryma / immunology
  • Tropheryma / isolation & purification
  • Whipple Disease* / complications
  • Whipple Disease* / diagnosis
  • Whipple Disease* / drug therapy

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Antibodies, Bacterial
  • Hydroxychloroquine
  • Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination
  • Doxycycline