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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
CNS Whipple disease
Somebody asked me the other day about CNS Whipple disease. I said that I thought it was an instestinal infection and didn't think it had a CNS manifestation. I thought wrong. Caused by Tropheryma whippelii, a gram positive intracellular actinomycete, Whipple disease of the CNS can cause various symptoms, including ophthalmoplegia.
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True. I had a case that I thought might be CNS Whipple, but it ended up not being so.
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