Professional paper
Pulmonary hypertension leading to right heart failure in a patient with iga gammopathy
Yashvir Singh Sangwan
; Internal Medicine, St Elizabeth's Hospital,Belmont Avenue, Youngstown, OH, USA 44501.
Bhagwan Dass
; Internal Medicine, St Elizabeth's Hospital,Belmont Avenue, Youngstown, OH, USA 44501.
Abstract
Amyloidosis is a rare disorder characterized by the deposition of amorphous, extracellular, insoluble fibrillar protein in various tissues of the body. Pulmonary hypertension usually occurs in the last stages of the disease with co-existing left ventricular failure. Amyloidosis causing pulmonary hypertension in a patient with no evidence of left ventricular failure is rarely mentioned in literature. Here, we present a patient with IgA gammopathy presenting with pulmonary hypertension leading to progressive right heart failure and death.
Keywords
amyloidosis; pulmonary hypertension; IgA gammopathy
Hrčak ID:
11968
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Publication date:
1.4.2007.
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