A Case of Whipple's Disease: A Very Rare Cause for Rapidly Progressive Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Whipple's disease (WD) is a very rare systemic disease caused by the gram-positive bacillus Tropherymawhippleii 1st described in the year 1907. It is a disease with multisystem involvement and high degree of suspicion is needed for diagnosis. However the classical (OMM)oculomasticatory (OFMM)oculofacial-skeletal myorhythmia clubbed with dementia, head ache and other neurologic features should deserve an attempt to confirm whenever possible and therapeutic trial as it is one of the treatable dementias. Males are more affected and probable route of infection is oral though clustering of cases is not reported so far.

Case report

63 year old hypertensive patient presented with abdominal pain, weight loss, dementia, ataxia, extrapyramidal features, falls, up gaze pal

SUBMITTER: Chandra SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5968653 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature