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2. UPS Store president shares 4 lessons she learned from ... - AOL

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   Turns out she was suffering from full blockage in her left ascending artery—prompting a heart attack known as a “widowmaker”—which has just a 12% survival rate outside of hospitals for women.

3. 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 ...

4. 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

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. '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. ... “The symptoms can be life-threatening,” Mauri says ...

7. 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.

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   Life after a widowmaker. Holliman said that recovery was difficult. Before her heart attack, she was running five miles a day to train for a 10K. She regularly drank water and ate fruits and ...

9. 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 ...