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Emergency contrast chest computed tomography scans revealing peripheral bilateral patchy ground-glass opacities with consolidations. Pulmonary embolism was excluded in our lupus patient with COVID-19.
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Emergency contrast chest computed tomography (CT) scan excluded pulmonary embolism but confirmed bilateral ground-glass opacities that were distributed in both the upper and lower lobes of the lung (Fig. 1).
Portable chest X-ray depicting bilateral interstitial infiltrates (the venous catheter is a double-lumen central line, which was inserted for hemodialysis as the patient's fistula was malfunctioning at that time).
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Due to the fact that her fistula was malfunctioning a double lumen central line was inserted for hemodialysis (Fig. 2).