After 10 minutes it was still (124)! Our website services, content, and products are for informational purposes only. ?I am grateful to be alive and I am thankful for the doctors. (2012). I just lost my brother to the Widowmaker I am wondering if it is in inherited Factor. 84% is significant, but I am sure your dr. is watching your ekgs, and has told you what to look for. After reading the information on this site I am very thankful to be alive. How long do a stent surgery take to recover? Heading to the grocery store tomorrow. These factors are the best we have. But I too felt the same way that God had more work for me too. And later he, couldnt get the needed knee replacements because of his heart condition. A widowmaker heart attack causes symptoms similar to those of other types of heart attack. What do elevated cardiac enzyme levels mean? My son had been helping me and left to go get us some pizza for lunch. The appellation widow maker, which has been applied to this lesion (in part because of the large amount of myocardium that the left anterior descending artery supplies and its proximity to the distal He had weakness and flu like symptoms for 2 weeks leading up to his heart attack on January 1, 2015. How rude! She used LAD so I was researching it for accuracy of my transcript. In this regard, can you stent a 100 blocked artery? Thanks to you Dr. for great info and the section for comments. Never any other health issues for me but a History of heart in my family. That is the reason it is the leading cause of death. Im sorry to hear about your husband. Thank you for sharing this information to help others. The cardiologist was quite adamant about looking instead of just putting me on a treadmill. The hospital stay and recovery period after angioplasty are much quicker. Cath lab found 95% blockage of LAD, widow maker. I had taken an MRI a couple weeks earlier, and he said I had a couple of mini-strokes. Was cutting up an evergreen tree Thursday afternoon and got a burning pain in my chest and felt an invisible hand squeezing my throat and breathing felt like my lungs were filled with cotton. Two days later I began suffering major intestinal pain and returned to the ER. What if somebody said, Shut up, its not helping. Well, it probably didnt make a difference in the outcome, but it helped ME cope with a scary situation. I hope this helps. I am 50 and never had any trouble till then. It is all in Gods hands. Get a copy of your records. 1-ranked heart program in the United States. The critical blockage in the artery stops, usually a blood clot, stops all the blood flow to the left side of the heart, causing the heart to stop beating normally. They are made to be permanent once a stent is placed, it's there to stay. Immediately after I felt like something was stuck in my gullet, then a burning sensation between my shoulder blades that quickly became a pain that ran from my underarms to my fingers (like an electric shock). I am home now and feeling pretty good. 30 years later, I was in China, and decided to climb up the steep Great Wall. It I heard the siren coming and they were at my home in less than 5 minutes. My athletic Uncle has a normal cholesterol. Further tests would be done on the arteries feeding that chamber. But I can walk again, have come off 24/7 oxygen after a year, and have an improved EF rating on my heart, no significant changes in my latest echocardiogram done a week ago. My husband had a widow maker heart attack. In retrospect, I am the luckiest guy on earth. Im 6ft and 190lbs, not overweight, nor did I eat poorly, just dont get why this happened.
