Severe pulmonary hypertension reversed by antibiotics in a patient with Whipple's disease

Thorax. 1997 Nov;52(11):1014-5. doi: 10.1136/thx.52.11.1014.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / drug therapy
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / etiology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pericardial Effusion / complications
  • Pericardial Effusion / drug therapy
  • Pleural Effusion / complications
  • Pleural Effusion / drug therapy
  • Whipple Disease / complications*
  • Whipple Disease / diagnosis
  • Whipple Disease / drug therapy

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents