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Overview of the most typical features of individual types of amyloidosis with pulmonary involvement. The described aspects (from top to bottom) include the most common associated amyloid type, clinical picture (if present), underlying diseases and final prognosis.
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Amyloidosis is a rare metabolic disorder primarily brought on by misfolding of an autologous protein, which causes its local or systemic deposition in an aberrant fibrillar form. It is quite rare for pulmonary tissue to be impacted by amyloidosis; of the three forms it can take when involving pulmonary tissue, nodular pulmonary amyloidosis is the m...
