what heart artery is called the widow maker?

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Left Anterior Descending Artery

Cause many times people get heartattacks due to blockage in this artery, and it happens both fast and unexpectedly.

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specific part of heart-never heard that "widow maker" had anything to do with a "specific part" of the heart.

Left Main

Curious is correct. The left main is traditionally called the widow maker because it is a larger feeder artery to nearly the entire left side of the heart (the side that pumps blood throughout your entire body). One of the arteries it feeds is the LAD (left anterior descending).
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Physician asssitant - cardiology

Left main. The main bloodflow the heart muscle branches off from that artery. Unless your are in the presence of a cardiothoracic surgeon, you better hope it does't clot hence the name widow maker.
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cardiac RN

I'm a cardiologist and in our cath lab, a tight lesion in the proximal left anterior descending is called a widow maker.

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