Whipple Disease Presenting as Isolated Transverse Myelitis with Permanent Neurological Damage in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Case Report of a Difficult Diagnosis with a Literature Review
We describe an atypical case of Whipple disease exclusively involving the spinal cord in an adolescent receiving immunosuppressive therapy for systemic lupus erythematosus. The diagnosis was particularly difficult since lupus and Whipple disease can present similar clinical features and the patient&...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Published: |
MDPI AG,
2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to this object online. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
MARC
| LEADER | 00000 am a22000003u 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | doaj_c0e6f99e4c5e47288a8d6dae7aaa0e63 | ||
| 042 | |a dc | ||
| 100 | 1 | 0 | |a Carolina Saffioti |e author |
| 700 | 1 | 0 | |a Marta Nebiolo |e author |
| 700 | 1 | 0 | |a Roberta Caorsi |e author |
| 700 | 1 | 0 | |a Alessio Mesini |e author |
| 700 | 1 | 0 | |a Mariasavina Severino |e author |
| 700 | 1 | 0 | |a Giacomo Brisca |e author |
| 700 | 1 | 0 | |a Elio Castagnola |e author |
| 700 | 1 | 0 | |a Marco Gattorno |e author |
| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Whipple Disease Presenting as Isolated Transverse Myelitis with Permanent Neurological Damage in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Case Report of a Difficult Diagnosis with a Literature Review |
| 260 | |b MDPI AG, |c 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z. | ||
| 500 | |a 10.3390/idr16020022 | ||
| 500 | |a 2036-7449 | ||
| 520 | |a We describe an atypical case of Whipple disease exclusively involving the spinal cord in an adolescent receiving immunosuppressive therapy for systemic lupus erythematosus. The diagnosis was particularly difficult since lupus and Whipple disease can present similar clinical features and the patient's prolonged contact with sewage was initially not mentioned. A literature review of the clinical, imaging, diagnostic, and therapeutic challenges of Whipple disease is also performed. | ||
| 546 | |a EN | ||
| 690 | |a <i>Tropheryma whipplei</i> | ||
| 690 | |a Whipple disease | ||
| 690 | |a systemic lupus erythematosus | ||
| 690 | |a immunosuppressive therapy | ||
| 690 | |a neuroimaging | ||
| 690 | |a Other systems of medicine | ||
| 690 | |a RZ201-999 | ||
| 655 | 7 | |a article |2 local | |
| 786 | 0 | |n Infectious Disease Reports, Vol 16, Iss 2, Pp 269-280 (2024) | |
| 787 | 0 | |n https://www.mdpi.com/2036-7449/16/2/22 | |
| 787 | 0 | |n https://doaj.org/toc/2036-7449 | |
| 856 | 4 | 1 | |u https://doaj.org/article/c0e6f99e4c5e47288a8d6dae7aaa0e63 |z Connect to this object online. |