title: [Cough as the presenting feature of pulmonary AL amyloidosis: A case report].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pulmonary lesions may be a presenting feature of AL amyloidosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors.affiliation: Service médecine interne et immunologie clinique, hôpital Saint-André, 33000 Bordeaux, France. Electronic address: gildas.baulier@chu-bordeaux.fr.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Baulier
authors.affiliation: Service médecine interne et immunologie clinique, hôpital Saint-André, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Victor
authors.affiliation: Service médecine interne et immunologie clinique, hôpital Saint-André, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mercié
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine interne, hôpital Haut-Lévèque, Pessac, 33600 Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lazaro
authors.affiliation: Service médecine interne et immunologie clinique, hôpital Saint-André, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Duffau
mesh_terms: D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003371:Cough / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D000075363:Immunoglobulin Light-chain Amyloidosis; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
keywords: Amyloidosis; Amylose; Hypogammaglobulinemia; Hypogammaglobulinémie; Interstitial pneumonia; Multiple myeloma; Myélome; Pneumopathie interstitielle