Whipple's disease

DDx

  • Malabsorption due to other causes, eg, celiac or tropical sprue
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Reactive arthritis (Reiter's syndrome)
  • Systemic vasculitis
  • Infective endocarditis
  • Intestinal lymphoma
  • Familial Mediterranean fever
  • Behçet's syndrome
  • Intestinal Mycobacterium avium complex (in AIDS)

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Last updated: December 1, 2014