You are never too old for a congenital disease!

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• dysphagia
• chest pain
• extrinsic esophageal compression
• aberrant right subclavian artery
• barium esophagogram
• congenital anomaly