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Man in his 70s diagnosed with childhood heart defect
Doctors could not explain why Carlos Perez’s heart was struggling until a scan revealed an unusual defect usually found in infancy. The discovery led to a diagnosis in his seventies, highlighting how congenital heart conditions can go unnoticed for decades.
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