Left anterior descending artery, which supplies blood to the front of the heart.

In this case, the one known as the left anterior descending artery lived up to its reputation as "the widow maker."

"Doctors refer to the left anterior descending artery as the widow maker," Musburger said.

Mr. Berkeley learned that he had had a 95 percent blockage in the left anterior descending artery.

Left anterior descending artery.

Tests revealed severe blockages in her left anterior descending artery and right coronary artery.

It obstructed about 95 percent of the diagonal artery, a branch of the left anterior descending artery.

Soon, the doctors detected that the diagonal artery, a branch of the bigger left anterior descending artery, was almost completely blocked.

There was a representation of the left anterior descending artery, the superior vena cava, the atrioventricular node.

The conus artery may provide collateral blood flow to the heart when the left anterior descending artery is occluded.

The results of the catheterization showed an increased narrowing in a side branch artery, specifically the diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.

Revascularization of the left anterior descending artery with the left internal mammary artery is by far the best treatment option in terms of long term results.

For example, a "speck" of coronary calcification in the left anterior descending artery measures 4 square millimeters and has a peak density of 270 HU.

Dr. Douglas Boyd used Zeus to perform an endoscopic, single-vessel heart bypass surgery on a 55-year-old male patient's left anterior descending artery.

The former Giants coach, who is currently a football analyst for NBC, had undergone three previous heart procedures to clear the blockage in his left anterior descending artery.

Dr. DeBakey said the surgeons sewed an internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending artery on Mr. Yeltsin's heart.

It is the most common type of intraventricular conduction defect seen in acute anterior myocardial infarction, and the left anterior descending artery is usually the culprit vessel.

Wraparound LAD: The left anterior descending artery (LAD) supplies the anterior wall of the left ventricle in the majority of patients.

Alcohol septal ablation, introduced by Ulrich Sigwart in 1994, is a percutaneous technique that involves injection of alcohol into one or more septal branches of the left anterior descending artery.

The "LAD", or left anterior descending artery (or anterior interventricular branch of the left coronary artery, or anterior descending branch) is an artery of the heart.

Four months ago today, at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J., Parcells underwent an angioplasty procedure to clear his left anterior descending artery, which had a blockage of 95 percent to 99 percent.

Dr. Subramanian said that his technique provides a critical advantage over the standard bypass because when they cut into the sac covering the heart, the thin left anterior descending artery sprang into direct view without turning the heart.

The remaining anterior 2/3rds is supplied by the anterior interventricular artery which is a septal branch of the left anterior descending artery, which is a branch of left coronary artery.

They injected a dye to make Mr. Orr's arteries visible to an X-ray and they saw the problem - a huge clot in his heart's left anterior descending artery, blocking blood flow to most of his heart.

But he had a second spasm of chest pain about 8 P.M., and a diagnostic test determined that his left anterior descending artery, which supplies about half the blood to the heart, was 95 percent closed by fatty deposits known as plaque.

The AV-8 was dubbed a widow maker by some in the military.

From the minute a widow maker hits, survival time ranges from minutes to several hours.

What would the old Widow Maker say?

A widow maker cannot kill instantly but induces cardiac arrest which may do so within 10 to 20 minutes of no circulation.

They are immune to the Zone because of a special device called the Widow Maker.

Their exploits did much to reassure pilots that the Lightning might be a handful, but it was by no means a "widow maker."

Earlier in the day, Mr. Willett had been knocked down by one of the "widow makers."

In this case, the one known as the left anterior descending artery lived up to its reputation as "the widow maker."

"Doctors refer to the left anterior descending artery as the widow maker," Musburger said.

Yours was just another Starfleet widow maker.

It is easy to put in below the Widow Maker if the paddler is looking to avoid the feature.

Vehicles, particularly military aircraft, which have a reputation for high rates of fatal accidents, are sometimes nicknamed Widow maker:

The Widow Maker has become an extremely popular event on both the local riding circuit, and nationally with pro-riders.

Hill climbers were known to race up hills nicknamed the "widow maker" because of the danger and high rate of injury involved in this sport.

To do this he had to ride Widow Maker, a mare who had already managed to dispose of five other cowboys.

Calls it the Widow Maker."

O'Haire then kicked Bradshaw in the head, and performed a Widow Maker.

Dave Brock - lead guitar on "The Widow Maker"

In Sussex the ash and elm tree were known as the Widow Maker because the large boughs would often drop without warning.

(Innocent-looking trees that suddenly keel over or drop a limb several days after a storm or fire are known as "widow makers.")

Comment: I started taking krill oikl after I had open heart surgery (widow maker) and seeing it advertised on TV.

Early Navy pilots spoke disparagingly of the F4U as the "hog", "hosenose" or "bent-wing widow maker".

The Australian Ghost Gum Eucalyptus papuana is sometimes called the "widow maker", due to the high number of tree-felling workers who were killed by falling branches.

The first rapid on the Kananaskis is the Widow Maker, which is a class III pool drop that is notoriously tippy.

He also starred as J.T. Fuller in an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger titled "Widow Maker".

She is the spirit of death, the widow-maker herself, and you have brought her among us!

But in the past year or more there has been much visiting with the gray-haired widow-maker.

Widow-Maker, realizing that what he did to her was wrong, apologizes.

When I stepped aboard Widow-maker for the first time, it was so different.

At all events she was in no condition to meet a full gale, a North Sea widow-maker.

K-19 had become known as the widow-maker as 14 men had been killed during her construction.

Miners breathing the dust often developed silicosis and the town became known as a "widow-maker."

To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

The kauri is sometimes refered to as the "widow-maker".

His horse, Widow-Maker (also called Lightning), was so named because no other man could ride him and live.

It was the start of a massive heart attack, with the sort of blockage in an artery that doctors call the widow-maker.

If a loose branch (widow-maker) is hanging from the top of a chicot, workers must stay away from this tree.

Now I get to go down the road and tell Ellen Gamache the widow-maker paid a visit early this morning.

I would be no widow-maker, Iduna, nor do I wish that others should make you a widow.

“Quanto CDS has been the widow-maker for many desks.

She insists on riding Widow-Maker before, during or after the wedding (depending on variations in the story).

The aircraft had so many crashes in Luftwaffe service that it became known to its pilots as the Witwenmacher (widow-maker).

JGBs no longer a widow-maker?

O, it grieves my soul That I must draw this metal from my side To be a widow-maker!

Given its high accident rate, the MiG-21 was deeply unpopular with Indian pilots, who referred to it as "the flying coffin" and the "widow-maker."

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

The basic idea is that when a job defeats two people in a row, who in previous roles performed well, a company has a widow-maker on its hands.

In the 1948 Disney cartoon, Bill fails to lasso Sue because of Widow-Maker's direct interference.

Ordlaf predicted a storm, though all agreed that a storm in this millpond of a sea could hardly be compared with a North Sea widow-maker.

In that sense, is this just another widow maker in the making?

His left main coronary artery, often called the widow maker, was 90% blocked.

Who was it last week who called Lloyds the widow maker?

The blockage you had was the widow maker.

From the minute a widow maker heart attack hits, survival time ranges from minutes to several hours.

The angiogram revealed that one of her main heart arteries, known as the widow maker, was blocked.

They are immune to the Zone because of a special device called the Widow Maker.

The blockage was found in a key artery that is often referred to by cardiologists as the "widow maker."

What would the old Widow Maker say?

A widow maker cannot kill instantly but induces cardiac arrest which may do so within 10 to 20 minutes of no circulation.

"That's why they are called widow makers," Mr Fitzsimmons said.

"Doctors refer to the left anterior descending artery as the widow maker," Musburger said.

Yours was just another Starfleet widow maker.

Earlier in the day, Mr. Willett had been knocked down by one of the "widow makers."

Ash trees are sometimes referred to as "widow makers" in Sussex because of the danger posed by sudden falls.

It is easy to put in below the Widow Maker if the paddler is looking to avoid the feature.

Widow maker or Widowmaker may also refer to:

In this case, the one known as the left anterior descending artery lived up to its reputation as "the widow maker."

The widow maker is an alternate name for the anterior interventricular branch of left coronary artery.

He called it the Widow Maker.

Swanson published four books, including Whistle Punks and Widow Makers.

The name widow maker may also apply to the left coronary artery or severe occlusions to that artery.

Hill climbers were known to race up hills nicknamed the "widow maker" because of the danger and high rate of injury involved in this sport.

To do this he had to ride Widow Maker, a mare who had already managed to dispose of five other cowboys.

Dave Brock - lead guitar on "The Widow Maker"