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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Bhagyashree Deshmankar M.B.B.S.[2]

Overview

There are no established criteria for the diagnosis of Whipple's disease.

Diagnostic Criteria

  • There are no established criteria for the diagnosis of Whipple's disease. Diagnosis of Whipple's disease is suspected when patient presents with four cardinal features of Whipple's disease namely weight loss, diarrhea, arthralgia and abdominal pain. But since it is rare so its diagnosis is considered when other systemic inflammatory diseases causing similar symptoms have been ruled out.

References

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra062477

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.320.992&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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