Case Reports in Emergency Medicine
Volume 2018, Article ID 5756983, 2 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/5756983
Emergent Presentation of an Adult with Undiagnosed Coarctation of the Aorta
1West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, 400 N. Lee St., Lewisburg, WV 24901, USA
2Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke LifePoint Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center, 1086 Franklin Street, Johnstown, PA 15905, USA
3Department of Emergency Medicine, Kingman Regional Medical Center, 3269 Stockton Hill Road, Kingman, AZ 86409, USA
Correspondence should be addressed to John Ashurst; moc.liamg@hcraeser.23.nhoj.tsruhsa
Received 4 June 2017; Revised 14 September 2017; Accepted 1 November 2017; Published 19 February 2018
Academic Editor: Vasileios Papadopoulos
Copyright © 2018 Shannon Armistead et al. 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.
Abstract
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.