Right heart failure as the dominant clinical picture in a case of primary amyloidosis affecting the pulmonary vasculature.

Authors
Chapman, AD Brown, PAJ Kerr, KM
Citation
Ad. Chapman et al., Right heart failure as the dominant clinical picture in a case of primary amyloidosis affecting the pulmonary vasculature., SCOT MED J, 44(4), 1999, pp. 116-117
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
General & Internal Medicine
Journal title
SCOTTISH MEDICAL JOURNAL
ISSN journal
00369330 → ACNP
Volume
44
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
116 - 117
Database
ISI
SICI code
0036-9330(199908)44:4<116:RHFATD>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
A 91-year-old female patient died of right heart failure and pulmonary hype rtension. The autopsy revealed multi-organ vascular amyloidosis and pulmona ry alveolar septal amyloidosis with no evidence of parenchymal myocardial a myloid deposition. This is a rare example of cor pulmonale secondary to pul monary amyloidosis.