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. 2025 Apr 16;30(8):103229.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.103229. Epub 2025 Feb 12.

Rethinking the "Widowmaker": Advocating for Gender-Inclusive Terminology in Cardiovascular Care

Priya Ramcharan  1 , Kathryn Grimaldos  1 , Naveen Anand Seecheran  2
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Rethinking the "Widowmaker": Advocating for Gender-Inclusive Terminology in Cardiovascular Care

Priya Ramcharan et al. JACC Case Rep. .
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Keywords: cardiovascular care; gender-inclusive terminology; widowmaker.

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The Patient’s Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (A) A straight-cranial cineangiographic frame illustrating a 95% critical proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery stenosis encircled in red. (B) Successful drug-eluting stent (DES) insertion in the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) type B lesion with a good angiographic result and no complications.
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