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intestinal lipodystrophy, whipple's disease, rare condition that causes, malabsorption, inadequate absorption of nutrients, intestinal tract, due to infection, the intestine, whipple's disease, likely, infection, tropheryma whippelii, disorder primarily affects middle-aged white men, onset of symptoms, fatal, whipple's disease is extremely rare, risk factors, unknown, abdominal pain, fatty stools, fever, diarrhea, weight loss, gastrointestinal bleeding, enlarged lymph glands, joint pain, edema, gray to brown skin coloration, mental status changes, memory loss, primary tests, small bowel biopsy showing infection-fighting cells containing bacteria, body parts, biopsied, complete blood count, cbc, showing anemia, tests, fecal fat, d-xylose absorption, albumin, patients should receive prolonged antibiotic therapy, a drug, treat infections, the brain, central nervous system, symptoms reappear, therapy, patients, require a change in antibiotic regimen, relapses, occur after therapy has been completed, requiring close patient monitoring, patients who experience nutritional deficiencies, malabsorption, receive treatment, appropriate dietary supplements, condition, fatal, treatment improves the chance of a good outcome, nutritional deficiencies, weight loss, reappearance of symptoms, suggesting drug resistance, have persistent abdominal pain, diarrhea, whipple's disease, symptoms worsen, not improve, symptoms reappear, new symptoms develop.