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Whipple's triad is a collection of three signs (called Whipple's criteria) that suggests that a patient's symptoms result from hypoglycaemia that may indicate insulinoma.The essential conditions are symptoms of hypoglycaemia, low blood plasma glucose concentration, and relief of symptoms when plasma glucose concentration is increased.
[3] [2] Identifying Whipple's triad in a patient helps to avoid unnecessary diagnostic testing and decreases healthcare costs. [2] In those with a history of diabetes treated with insulin, glinides, or sulfonylurea, who demonstrate Whipple's triad, it is reasonable to assume the cause of hypoglycemia is due to insulin, glinides, or sulfonylurea ...
Unhappy Triad (Also known as O'Donoghue's triad or a blown knee) Injury to the ACL, MCL, and meniscus (either medial or lateral) Knee Injury Virchow's triad: Stasis, Hypercoagulability, Vessel injury: Venous thrombosis: Triad of Wernicke encephalopathy: Confusion, ophthalmoplegia, ataxia: Wernicke encephalopathy: Whipple's Triad
The diagnosis of insulinoma is suspected in a patient with symptomatic fasting hypoglycemia. The conditions of Whipple’s triad need to be met for the diagnosis of "true hypoglycemia" to be made: [5] [6] symptoms and signs of hypoglycemia, concomitant plasma glucose level of 45 mg/dL (2.5 mmol/L) or less, and
Whipple's disease is a rare systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei.First described by George Hoyt Whipple in 1907 and commonly considered as a gastrointestinal disorder, Whipple's disease primarily causes malabsorption, but may affect any part of the human body, including the heart, brain, joints, skin, lungs and the eyes. [1]
Whipple's triad; Wildervanck syndrome This page was last edited on 4 January 2018, at 18:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Whipple's triad: Allen Whipple: endocrinology: hypoglycemia: 1.symptoms associated with hypoglycaemia 2. measured low serum glucose 3. relief of symptoms with administration of glucose p.o. or iv Wickham's striae: Louis Frédéric Wickham: dermatology: lichen planus: white or greyish lines on the lichen planus lesions Widal test: Georges ...
Whipple's triad; Woltman sign This page was last edited on 11 October 2020, at 05:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...