Another Shoe Drops...

Apr 13, 2009 20:43

A widow maker is a nickname used to describe a highly stenotic left main coronary artery or proximal left anterior descending coronary artery of the heart. This term is used because if the artery gets abruptly and completely occluded it will cause a massive heart attack that will likely lead to death.
I have this and I am going in for surgery first of next month if not sooner. I just found out today...did a stress test and they took the pix of the heart. Looks like the pain I had was not in my head. I thought I was just having panic attacks. If you have the same ...get checked. I lost my middle brother Tom at age 39 for the very same thing.
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