Tracheobronchomalacia due to amyloidosis in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis.
In this case report, we describe a patient with longstanding rheumatoid arthritis who developed tracheobronchomalacia with fatal outcome. Despite negative antemortem biopsies of abdominal fat and tongue, amyloid was found postmortem in the trachea and appeared to be associated with tracheobronchomalacia.
Turkstra
Franktien
F
Department of Rheumatology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. f.turkstra@janvanbreemen.nl
Rinkel
Rico N P M
RN
Biermann
Hagen
H
van der Valk
Paul
P
Voskuyl
Alexandre E
AE
D000368:Aged; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D001706:Biopsy; D001980:Bronchi / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014132:Trachea / Q000473:pathology*