^Topol, Eric J.; Califf, Robert M. Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2007: 283 [6 November 2014]. ISBN 9780781770125. The most worrisome type is the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) MI, often referred to as the widow-maker infarction, which carries a high mortality and is attributed to an occlusion of the LAD before or at the first septal perforator.