Cough as the presenting feature of pulmonary AL amyloidosis: A case report

Pulmonary lesions may be a presenting feature of AL amyloidosis. We report a 49-year-old male with AL amyloidosis secondary to a multiple myeloma with symptomatic interstitial pulmonary lesions and chronic cough as the presenting feature. Lung involvement is relatively frequent during AL amyloidosis but most of the time it remains asymptomatic. Interstitial pneumonia is the rarest condition of pulmonary amyloidosis. It is related to a large diffusion of the disease as demonstrated by the usual concurrent presence of cardiac lesions.