The left anterior descending coronary artery (a.k.a. LAD, interventricular artery or the “widow maker”) supplies the anterior, anterolateral, anteroapical and apical segments of the left ...

An anterior myocardial infarction results from occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. This can cause an ST elevation myocardial infarction or a non-ST segment elevation ...

The left anterior descending artery is usually the largest coronary artery, feeding over half of the heart with blood. The LAD runs on the left side of the heart before traveling down its front ...

The patient you saw there had something that's nicknamed the widowmaker heart attack which, is where this complete blockage of the left anterior descending artery here that supplies the main ...

SCV=superior caval vein; LAD=left anterior descending artery Multislice computed tomographic image of the diaphragmatic surface of the heart. Following the atrioventricular groove, the right ...

A study from Stanford researchers identifies the CXCL12 gene as a crucial regulator of the posterior descending artery’s development in the human heart ... mice also showed that reducing the protein ...