Whipple's Disease

Alternate Name: See also Symptoms: Malabsorption

Test:

Endoscopic duodenal biopsy (+), faecal fat (H),Hb (N or L)

Sign:

Steatorrhoea, abdominal distension, oedema, fe­ver

Dd:

Other forms of malabsorption, endocarditis,AIDS, sarcoidosis, Reiter syndrome, familial Mediterranean fever, Behget disease

Phys:

Rare infection of multiple systems caused by Tropheryma whippiei. Not infectious.