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Positron emission tomography in the diagnosis of Whipple’s endocarditis: a case report

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Title
Positron emission tomography in the diagnosis of Whipple’s endocarditis: a case report
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BMC Research Notes, February 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13104-015-1022-2
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Sarah-Lyne Jos, Emmanouil Angelakis, Thierry Caus, Didier Raoult

Abstract

Whipple's disease is a systemic infection that sometimes is associated with cardiac manifestations. The diagnosis of Tropheryma whipplei endocarditis is still the result of chance because there are no diagnostic criteria and clinical signs are often those of cardiac disease rather than infection. Culture-negative endocarditis was suspected in a non-febrile 77-year-old French woman from North France with a history of a graft replacement 4 years prior. Positron emission tomography revealed intense fluorodeoxyglucose uptake around the metal ring of the aortic graft. The valve was replaced, and T. whipplei was detected in a valve sample by molecular assays. Immunohistochemical staining of the valve for T. whipplei was also positive. The localization of infectious foci by positron emission tomography and systematically testing valve specimens for T. whipplei are promising for diagnosing Whipple's disease.

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Unknown 12 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 33%
Researcher 3 25%
Other 1 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 8%
Unknown 3 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 50%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 8%
Unknown 5 42%
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