Case Report

Amyloid Tumor of the Breast Mimicking Breast Carcinoma

Amyloid tumors of the breast are extremely rare. Few isolated cases have been reported to date. Amyloid involvement of the breast has no specific diagnostic features on mammography; on occasion, this causes diagnostic challenges. In this paper, the case of a 58-year-old woman with an amyloid tumor of the breast,…

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Case Report

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Symptomatic Conduction System Disease in Cardiac Amyloidosis

Cardiac involvement is the most important prognostic factor in primary amyloidosis (AL). The clinical presentation of amyloid cardiomyopathy is varied and may manifest as heart failure, brady or tachyarrhythmias, syncope, angina and rarely with features of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and advanced symptomatic conduction system disease. The management of amyloid cardiomyopathy has…

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