Emergent Presentation of an Adult with Undiagnosed Coarctation of the Aorta

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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.