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George Săraci1, Toader Zaharie, Gabriela Corina Zaharie
1Department of Pathology, "Iuliu Haţieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; dgheban@gmail.com.
Abstract:
We present the case of a 51-year-old male admitted for asthenia, fatigability, nausea, inappetence, weight loss, watery diarrhea, lower limb paresthesia and diagnosed after further investigations with Whipple's disease (WD). The evolution was favorable under antibiotic therapy but after a period of time the patient was no longer compliant to the treatment and psychotic manifestations, general status alteration and finally the decease occurred. WD is a condition caused by Tropheryma whipplei (TW) bacterium in people with altered macrophage degrading capacity and it is lethal without early treatment.
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