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 ...

(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 ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MDMedically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD A widowmaker heart attack is a type of ...

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.