How to differentiate COVID-19 pneumonia from heart failure with computed tomography at initial medical contact during epidemic period

Zhaowei Zhu; Jianjun Tang; Xiangping Chai; Zhenfei Fang; Qiming Liu; Xinqun Hu; Danyan Xu; Jia He; Liang Tang; Shi Tai; Yuzhi Wu; Shenghua Zhou

is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.04.20031047 doi: medRxiv preprint A, Big patchy GGO in left lung and sporadic GGO in right lung. Peribronchovascular thickening, fissural thickening (arrow) were also found with subpleural effusion. B, Subpleural GGO with band-shaped morphology (arrow) in the dorsal segment of bilateral lungs. Interlobular septal thickening and cardiac enlargement were also found. C, Patchy lesion of Crazy Paving Pattern in right upper lung with partial consolidation inside. Small pulmonary vein enlargement (arrow) was also found, accompanied with subpleural effusion in the right lung. D, Big patchy GGO in left lung. Interlobular septal thickening was also found inside. E, Multiple disease mixed with GGO and consolidation in bilateral lungs. Fibrous lesion (arrow) was found in the left lung. F, Patchy lesion of Crazy Paving Pattern in left upper lung with partial consolidation inside. . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.