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2. Left anterior descending artery - Wikipedia

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   Widow maker is an alternative name for the anterior interventricular branch of the left coronary artery. [9] [3] The name widow maker may also apply to the left coronary artery [10] or severe occlusions to that artery. [11] [12] This term is used because the left main coronary and/or the left anterior descending supply blood to large areas of ...

3. 'Absolutely shocked': Mom, 40, says severe chills were sign ...

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   Single mom, 40, felt shocked she had an often fatal widowmaker heart attack. She had a stent placed but then needed bypass surgery. ... While doctors ran tests, including an EKG and a CT scan ...

4. Single mom, 49, recalls first signs of widowmaker heart ... - AOL

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   Specifically, Casalan Bittle had a 100% blockage in the main artery in the heart (the left anterior descending artery), a condition sometimes called a widow-maker heart attack. Doctors placed a ...

5. Dad, 48, recalls the subtle symptom he had for a year leading ...

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   Widow maker heart attack. When the left anterior artery has a blockage, what's known as a widow maker heart attack can occur. In younger patients like Prewitt, there might not be any symptoms.

6. Wellens' syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Wellens' syndrome is an electrocardiographic manifestation of critical proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery stenosis in people with unstable angina. ...

7. Widow maker - Wikipedia

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   Widowmaker (forestry), any loose overhead debris such as limbs or tree tops that may fall at any time Widow maker (medicine), a nickname used to describe a highly stenotic left main coronary artery or proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery of the heart, which is very often fatal

8. Las Vegas dealer’s heart shocked 40 times after ‘widowmaker ...

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   Heart attack symptoms include sweating, the major warning sign when a Las Vegas card dealer experienced a widowmaker. His heart had to be shocked 40 times.

9. De Winter syndrome - Wikipedia

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   de Winter syndrome is an electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern which often represents sudden near blockage of the left anterior descending artery (LAD). [1] [5] Symptoms include chest pain, shortness of breath, and sweating. [1] While typically due to blockage of the LAD, other arteries of the heart may be involved. [1]