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A 72-year-old woman complained of systemic amyloidosis for about 15 years from initial symptoms. The characteristic features of the case were diffuse nodular shadows on chest X-ray films, recurrent lower respiratory tract infections by pseudomonas aeruginosa, and chronic renal failure resulting in death.Autopsy findings, by which systemic amyloidosis was first diagnosed, revealed abundant deposits of amyloid in the lung, heart, kidney and almost all other organs of her whole body. Among them, the most involved organ was the lung in which amyloid infiltrates were seen in the alveolar septa, peribronchiolar tissues and blood vessel walls.