Whipple's Disease
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Whipple's Disease:
Whipple's disease is a malabsorption disease. It
interferes with the body's ability to absorb certain nutrients. The
disease causes weight loss, irregular ... more about Whipple's Disease.
Whipple's Disease: Rare malabsorption disease from bacterial digestive infection.
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Good once diagnosed and treated. Poor if untreated.
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Whipple's disease is a malabsorption disease. It
interferes with the body's ability to absorb certain nutrients. The
disease causes weight loss, irregular breakdown of carbohydrates and fats,
resistance to insulin, and malfunctions of the immune system. When
recognized and treated, Whipple's disease can be cured. Untreated, the
disease is usually fatal.
(Source: excerpt from Whipple's Disease: NIDDK)
Definitions of Whipple's Disease:
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 INTESTINE MUCOSA and LYMPH NODES, malabsorption, DIARRHEA with fatty stools, MALNUTRITION, and ARTHRITIS.
- (Source - Diseases Database)
Whipple's Disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Whipple's Disease, or a subtype of Whipple's Disease,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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