A 60-year-old man with multiple pulmonary calcified nodules and masses was found to have nodular pulmonary light chain amyloidosis with a G kappa light chain in serum. He underwent stem cell transplant in 2003. In 2009, he was found to have pulmonary hypertension. Despite therapy, pulmonary hypertension and amyloidosis progressed.
Figure 1: Axial CT scan of the chest, lung and mediastinal windows, showing multiple calcified pulmonary nodules and masses secondary to Amyloidosis
Steven Knoper, MD; Carmen Luraschi-Monjagatta, MD and Aarthi Ganesh, MD
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Arizona Respiratory Center
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Refernce as: Knoper S, Luraschi-Monjagatta C, Ganesh A. Medical image of the week: amyloidosis. Southwest J Pulm Crit Care 2013;6(1):52. PDF