Patients can get well into adulthood before learning that they have an anatomic abnormality—that
is, if they ever find out. A 35-year-old woman with a history of atypical chest pain
and shortness of breath presented to her physician for an examination. Because her
symptoms were atypical and she had a low pretest probability for coronary artery disease,
she was referred for 64-detector row computed tomography angiography.
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