What is Whipples Disease?
Whipple’s disease is a multisystem disorder caused by chronic infection with a bacterium, Tropheryma whippelii. Many patients have malabsorption, which means an impairment of the body’s ability to absorb certain nutrients. The disease frequently causes weight loss, irregular breakdown of carbohydrates and fats, resistance to insulin. Most patients have dysfunctions of the immune system. When recognized and treated, Whipple’s disease can be cured. Untreated, the disease is usually fatal. Read more at the National Digestive Diseases Clearing House or at Whipples Disease Online. Whipple’s disease was named after George Hoyt Whipple, who first observed the disease in 1907 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Whipple was a staff member there from 1905 until 1914. He won the 1934 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. (See Blaine Whipple’s article on this site and George Hoyt Whipple’s ancestry in the WhippleGenWeb.) (This question was answered with the help of Dr. med. Axel
Whipple’s disease is a multisystem disorder caused by chronic infection with a bacterium, Tropheryma whippelii. Many patients have malabsorption, which means an impairment of the body’s ability to absorb certain nutrients. The disease frequently causes weight loss, irregular breakdown of carbohydrates and fats, resistance to insulin. Most patients have dysfunctions of the immune system. When recognized and treated, Whipple’s disease can be cured. Untreated, the disease is usually fatal. Read more at the National Digestive Diseases Clearing House or at Whipples Disease Online. Whipple’s disease was named after George Hoyt Whipple, who first observed the disease in 1907 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Whipple was a staff member there from 1905 until 1914. He won the 1934 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. (See Blaine Whipple’s article on this site and George Hoyt Whipple’s ancestry in the Whipple Genweb.) (This question was answered with the help of Dr. med. Axel
