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Severe pulmonary hypertension reversed by antibiotics in a patient with Whipple's disease |
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| Authors: | H. Riemer R. Hainz C. Stain G. Dekan M. Feldner-Busztin P. Schenk C. Muller K. Sertl O. C. Burghuber |
| Abstract: | The case is described of a 58 year old man with systemic Whipple's disease with pericardial and pleural effusions and severe pulmonary hypertension. After three months of antibiotic treatment there was a complete resolution, not only of the symptoms known to be associated with Whipple's disease (diarrhoea, arthralgia, pericardial and pleural effusions), but also of pulmonary hypertension. |
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