You are never too old for a congenital disease!

J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - McKeesport Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Published: January 2014

Congenital diseases are sometimes overlooked by physicians because of their rarity or because of late onset of symptoms, which may delay treatment plans. This is illustrated in our patient who presented with dysphagia along with chest pain and who was found to have a congenital vascular anomaly, detected in her fifth decade of life.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3879513PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v3i3-4.22091DOI Listing

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