Whipple’s disease is diagnosed through a careful evaluation of symptoms, endoscopy, and biopsy with tissue staining Written by: Editorial Team Updated at: Jan 11, 2013 15:30 IST SHARE FOLLOW ...

Whipple's disease takes the name of Dr George Whipple, an American physician, scientist and educator who shared the Nobel prize in Physiology in Medicine in 1934. In 1907, he published autopsy ...

Whipple’s disease is diagnosed through a careful evaluation of symptoms, endoscopy, and biopsy with tissue staining. Electron microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing are used to ...

Whipple himself pointed out that although there were excessive fatty acids in the ileal tissue on chemical analysis, the cytoplasmic vacuoles in the foamy cells showed little or no fat-staining ...

Whipple's disease can be diagnosed by a histologic examination of endoscopically biopsied intestinal mucosa with a sensitivity of 75% (a percentage that can be slightly improved with the use of ...