Whipple's Disease With Cardiac and Renal Abnormalities

摘要: Heart lesions are common in Whipple's disease (intestinal lipodystrophy)1-3but their occurrence often does not result significant clinical manifestations. Consequently, few observations of cardiovascular abnormalities have been recorded, and the extent cardiac involvement has widely appreciated among clinicians. It is purpose this communication to present a patient with whose course was complicated by decompensation, pericarditis, focal glomerulitis. To my knowledge, third report literature which pericarditis clinically described first decompensation represented terminal event. Patient Summary A 47-year-old white man admitted Washington Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital July 1965 because diarrhea six months' duration. This illness began June 1960 onset redness, swelling, pain both ankles knees. The joint inflammation