SEVERE PULMONARY-HYPERTENSION REVERSED BY ANTIBIOTICS IN A PATIENT WITH WHIPPLES-DISEASE

Authors
RIEMER H HAINZ R STAIN C DEKAN G FELDNERBUSZTIN H SCHENK P MULLER C SERTL K BURGHUBER OC
Citation
H. Riemer et al., SEVERE PULMONARY-HYPERTENSION REVERSED BY ANTIBIOTICS IN A PATIENT WITH WHIPPLES-DISEASE, Thorax, 52(11), 1997, pp. 1014-1015
Citations number
8
Journal title
Thorax → ACNP
ISSN journal
00406376
Volume
52
Issue
11
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1014 - 1015
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-6376(1997)52:11<1014:SPRBAI>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
The case is described of a 58 year old man with systemic Whipple's dis ease with pericardial and pleural effusions and severe pulmonary hyper tension. After three months of antibiotic treatment there was a comple te resolution, not only of the symptoms known to be associated with Wh ipple's disease (diarrhoea, arthralgia, pericardial and pleural effusi ons), but also of pulmonary hypertension.