This episode dives into the rare Whipple’s disease, focusing on the articular manifestations of this infectious masquerader and when a rheumatologist should consider it in the differential.

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• Intro :20
• In this episode :28
• Background on the organism 5:25
• An important point when making the diagnosis 7:48
• Who gets infected? 8:55
• What is Whipple’s disease? 11:48
• This disease is fatal 15:53
• A look at the joints 16:28
• What happens when you give these patients immunosuppression? 26:36
• How to diagnose 28:38
• Summary so far 31:00

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• Other organ manifestations of Whipple’s disease 32:08
• Summary and take-home 44:36

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Additional resource:

Neurosigns.org’s video on oculomasticatory myorhythmia can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwb5bt749Jo