A rare case of Whipple's disease with endocarditis in a patient with dextrocardia.
Publication/Presentation Date
1-1-2020
Abstract
We report a case of an elderly Caucasian male with past medical history of dextrocardia with situs inversus totalis, polymyalgia rheumatica, history of cryptogenic stroke, and severe mitral regurgitation with mitral valve prolapse, who presented with acute heart failure symptoms, including severe dyspnea on exertion and worsening lower extremity edema in the setting of immunosuppression with steroids for a year-old diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica. One month prior to this presentation, the patient suffered a transient ischemic attack and during the workup, his transthoracic echocardiography showed myxomatous degeneration of posterior mitral leaflet, partially flail, with severe mitral regurgitation, which required mitral valve replacement. Genome sequencing of mitral valve anterior leaflet pathology detected
Volume
8
First Page
2050313
Last Page
2050313
ISSN
2050-313X
Published In/Presented At
Sullivan, A., Shrestha, P., Basnet, S., Herb, R., & Zagorski, E. (2020). A rare case of Whipple's disease with endocarditis in a patient with dextrocardia. SAGE open medical case reports, 8, 2050313X20936952. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050313X20936952
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
32655867
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article