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Sarcoid, amyloid and heart failure
R D Rakhit1, G J Clesham, J G Cleland
1Department of Clinical Cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
International Journal of Cardiology
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
We report the case of an adult West Indian patient who presented with heart failure 20 years after an initial diagnosis of pulmonary sarcoidosis. Endomyocardial biopsy revealed AL type amyloid which was later found to be secondary to an underlying multiple myeloma.