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The majority of patients with significant congenital heart disease are diagnosed in infancy or childhood. A few escape detection until adult life when, for example, rib notching on a pre-employment chest X-ray reveals the presence of an unsuspected coarctation of the aorta.
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Fleming, J., Ward, C. (1981). Congenital Cardiac Disease. In: Handbook of Cardiac Care. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7262-2_8
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