Emergent Presentation of an Adult with Undiagnosed Coarctation of the Aorta

Coarctation of the aorta is typically thought to be a childhood disease. However, emergency physicians must keep a broad differential diagnosis when faced with a young patient with signs and symptoms of acute congestive heart failure. The authors present a case of newly diagnosed coarctation of the...

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Autores principales: Armistead, Shannon, Mullins, David, Sherick, Stephen, Ashurst, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29670774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5756983
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Sherick, Stephen
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description Coarctation of the aorta is typically thought to be a childhood disease. However, emergency physicians must keep a broad differential diagnosis when faced with a young patient with signs and symptoms of acute congestive heart failure. The authors present a case of newly diagnosed coarctation of the aorta in a 26-year-old male who was first misdiagnosed with pneumonia.
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spelling pubmed-58364302018-04-18 Emergent Presentation of an Adult with Undiagnosed Coarctation of the Aorta Armistead, Shannon Mullins, David Sherick, Stephen Ashurst, John Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report Coarctation of the aorta is typically thought to be a childhood disease. However, emergency physicians must keep a broad differential diagnosis when faced with a young patient with signs and symptoms of acute congestive heart failure. The authors present a case of newly diagnosed coarctation of the aorta in a 26-year-old male who was first misdiagnosed with pneumonia. Hindawi 2018-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5836430/ /pubmed/29670774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5756983 Text en Copyright © 2018 Shannon Armistead et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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