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A 57-year-old male with a history of peripheral neuropathy and dyspnea for one year of evolution was admitted for ischemic stroke. Electrocardiographic and ultrasound studies revealed underlying hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.The electrophoretic proteinogram and immunofixation showed that it was a monoclonal gammopathy by lambda-light chains. Biopsy of gingival mucosa demonstrated and bone marrow the presence of amyloidosis. It was concluded that it was a cardiac of light chains amyloidosis secondary to monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance GMUS.The patient received chemotherapy but died two months after admission.
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Introduction: There is little information in Peru on the association of tuberculous orchiepididymitis in relation to immunosuppressed patients, being an endemic country of tuberculosis and there is an increase in the prevalence of chronic noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, producing wrong diagnoses. Clinical Case: We present the case of a 70-year-old man with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus who was admitted to the outpatient clinic due to dysuria and frequency. On physical examination, a hard, non-painful right testicle, the ultrasound showed signs of epididymal abscess in the scrotal wall of the Right testicle, which is why an infected neoplasm is suspected, and a right orchiectomy is performed, later in the histological study, multinucleated Langhans-type giant cells with granulomatous areas suggestive of tuberculosis are shown, which is why it is proposed...