(Charron's father suffered a fatal widowmaker heart attack months before her July 2020 ... The later symptoms pushed the doctors to run another EKG, which concluded the 40-year-old woman was ...
Newswatch 16's Emily Kress was there as Timothy Teel reunited with the doctors at Lehigh Valley Hospital Carbon who saved his ...
And just a few months earlier, she'd had normal results from an annual physical, including an EKG. But once she ... condition sometimes called a widow-maker heart attack. Doctors placed a stent ...
While all kinds of heart attacks can be fatal, widowmaker heart attack has earned notoriety as one of the deadliest. It tends to attack out of the blue, and has a low survival rate. According to ...
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.