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Successful Management of Whipple's Disease in a 46-Year-Old British Woman: A Case Report.
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Abstract
Whipple's disease (WD) is a rare systemic infection, notoriously difficult to diagnose due to the presence of common, ambiguous, or constitutional clinical characteristics. We present the case of a 46-year-old British woman, who presented to the emergency department (ED) of Frimley Park Hospital, United Kingdom, with chief complaints of progressive weight loss, abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant, diarrhea bloating, and melena or rectal bleeding that had been ongoing for five months. Baseline studies were conducted outside of our hospital. The patient's secondary pathology included pulmonary sarcoidosis (PS), pulmonary hypertension (PH), pulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA), hypothyroidism (HT), and learning impairments. After evaluating all of the medical reports, an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD) revealed the presence of oedematous mucosa, and a biopsy from the second portion of the duodenum confirmed the diagnosis of WD.
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