May 20, 2020
This episode dives into the rare Whipple’s disease, focusing on the articular manifestations of this infectious masquerader and when a rheumatologist should consider it in the differential.
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- Intro :20
- In this episode :28
- Background on the organism 5:25
- An important point when making the diagnosis 7:48
- Who gets infected? 8:55
- What is Whipple’s disease? 11:48
- This disease is fatal 15:53
- A look at the joints 16:28
- What happens when you give these patients immunosuppression? 26:36
- How to diagnose 28:38
- Summary so far 31:00
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- Other organ manifestations of Whipple’s disease 32:08
- Summary and take-home 44:36
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Additional resource:
Neurosigns.org’s video on oculomasticatory myorhythmia can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwb5bt749Jo