Chest computed tomography (CT) findings
Six of the seven patients underwent chest CT scanning. The universal
finding in all patients was the presence of ground-glass opacities
(GGO), which were usually more prominent in the basilar areas of the
lungs. Five patients (55.5%) had pleural effusion, and three patients
(33.3%) had pericardial effusion (one patient had simultaneous pleural
and pericardial effusion, and one had neither of them). One notable
feature was that all patients had cardiomegaly on the CT images. Given
the prevalent history of coronary artery disease and left ventricular
hypertrophy among the patients, this latter finding was not surprising.Table 1 presents a summary of the chest CT imaging findings.Figures 1–3 illustrate the lung radiological findings in three
patients. Figure 4 shows the progression of the lesions in one
patient through the volume rendering technique chest CT images.