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[Primary amyloidosis AL as a cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy]
Y Rückert1, A Hansen, W V Dörffel
1Universitätspoliklinik für Ambulante Spezialmedizin Charité, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Zeitschrift Fur Kardiologie
|February 7, 1998
Abstract:
In a 71-year-old woman with macroglossia and heart failure, a monoclonal protein (kappa-light chains) was found in the serum. Congestive heart failure was diagnosed on the basis of heart catheterization and echocardiography. The tongue biopsy showed numerous amyloid fibrils, and plasmacytosis was present in the bone marrow. All these findings indicated a restrictive cardiomyopathy as part of a primary systemic amyloidosis.