Pulmonary alveolar--septal amyloidosis associated with pulmonary tuberculosis and an unusual paraproteinaemia.

Category Primary study
JournalAustralian and New Zealand journal of medicine
Year 1979
A patient is described who presented with mixed obstructive and restrictive lung disease, shown to be due to deposition of amyloid in an alveolar-septal distribution. An association with a plasma cell dyscrasia and pulmonary tuberculosis is discussed, as is the need for early diagnosis and a trial of aggressive cytotoxic therapy in primary amyloidosis.
Epistemonikos ID: 4dd36f5a6d84f93eb05ce8f58ac47c5637bffea1
First added on: Nov 02, 2024