A case of AA amyloidosis associated with chronic progressive pulmonary aspergillosis
Nayuta Saito* Jin Takasaki Yoshinori Nagahara Manabu Suzuki Masaaki Hojo Haruhito Sugiyama
Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
*Present address: Division of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine
We report a rare case of secondary AA amyloidosis associated with chronic progressive pulmonary aspergillosis (CPPA) in which we could observe the correlative conditions of the two diseases. A 35-year-old man had a treatment history of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteriosis (NTM) and CPPA six years earlier. He was suffering from diarrhea when treating eruption of CPPA one year later. He was diagnosed as having AA amyloidosis by histopathological findings of the colon. Diarrhea disappeared and the histopathological findings improved as we treated CPPA. He had severe diarrhea again five years later when treating CPPA re-exacerbation. The colon biopsy again showed AA amyloidosis. Despite the treatment with intravenous and transbronchial infusion of amphotericin B after intubation, he died of heart and lung failure. This case suggests we should consider about the secondary AA amyloidosis when seeing patients with aspergillus infection and the importance of treatment of the infection itself.
Secondary amyloidosis Chronic progressive pulmonary aspergillosis Pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteriosis
Received 16 Jan 2016 / Accepted 5 Jul 2016
AJRS, 5(6): 336-340, 2016