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- Orkide Kutlu, Selma Şengiz Erhan, Yasemin Gökden, Özlem Kandemir, and Tufan Tükek.
- Department of Internal Medicine, Okmeydanı Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, orkidekutlu@windowslive.com.
- Med Princ Pract. 2020 Jan 1; 29 (1): 90-93.
ObjectiveWhipple's disease is a very rare systemic infectious disease with an annual incidence of 3 in one million, which may be fatal if not diagnosed and treated appropriately.Clinical Presentation And InterventionHerein we describe a 49-year-old patient admitted to the hospital with symptoms of severe malabsorption and diagnosed with Whipple's disease. The diagnosis was based on the histopathological findings of small intestine biopsies and PCR analysis.ConclusionWhipple's disease should be kept in mind while dealing with patients with severe malabsorption, even in the absence of accompanying features of the disease.© 2019 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel.
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