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Thorax 1975;30:186-191; doi:10.1136/thx.30.2.186
Copyright © 1975 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Thoracic Society.

Primary diffuse alveolar septal amyloidosis.

S C Poh, T S Tjia, H C Seah

The case is reported of a 61-year-old man with primary diffuse alveolar septal pulmonary amyloidosis. Amyloid infiltration of the heart and other organs was also observed. The clinical findings and laboratory investigations reveal features characteristic of defective gas transfer with pulmonary oedema due to left ventricular failure from myocardial involvement.


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