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.