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. 2020 Nov 2;40(7):1866–1892. doi: 10.1148/rg.2020200195

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Pulmonary edema in a 50-year-old woman with a history of end-stage renal disease who underwent hemodialysis and who was admitted to the hospital for hypoxia and pneumonia in the setting of COVID-19. (a) Upright posteroranterior chest radiograph obtained at hospital admission shows a right lower lobe consolidation (circle). (b–d) Chest radiograph (b) and axial contrast material–enhanced chest CT images (c, d) obtained after 1 month for persistent hypoxemia show pulmonary edema (with pulmonary venous congestion [black arrows in b] depicted on the chest radiograph), increasing small bilateral pleural effusions (arrows in c), cardiomegaly (arrowheads in b and c), prominent interlobular septal (arrowheads in d) and peribronchovascular (arrow in d) thickening, and diffuse ground-glass opacities. The findings are indicative of pulmonary edema superimposed on the typical appearance of COVID-19 pneumonia. Note that the right lower lobe pneumonia depicted in a is almost completely resolved in b (white arrow in b). — Pulmonary edema in a 50-year-old woman with a history of end-stage renal disease who underwent hemodialysis and who was admitted to the hospital for hypoxia and pneumonia in the setting of COVID-19. (a) Upright posteroranterior chest radiograph obtained at hospital admission shows a right lower lobe consolidation (circle). (b–d) Chest radiograph (b) and axial contrast material–enhanced chest CT images (c, d) obtained after 1 month for persistent hypoxemia show pulmonary edema (with pulmonary venous congestion [black arrows in b] depicted on the chest radiograph), increasing small bilateral pleural effusions (arrows in c), cardiomegaly (arrowheads in b and c), prominent interlobular septal (arrowheads in d) and peribronchovascular (arrow in d) thickening, and diffuse ground-glass opacities. The findings are indicative of pulmonary edema superimposed on the typical appearance of COVID-19 pneumonia. Note that the right lower lobe pneumonia depicted in a is almost completely resolved in b (white arrow in b).