Abstract

If the Surgical Treatment of Ischemic Heart Failure (STICH) trial demonstrates that surgical therapy is superior to medical therapy, early aggressive evaluation of coronary artery disease as a potentially correctable cause of new-onset heart failure would be the preferred strategy. This strategy could tremendously change the treatment of ischemic heart disease. Confirming the STICH revascularization hypothesis will dramatically increase the use of coronary artery bypass grafting among the millions of patients now being medically treated without evaluation for an ischemic cause.

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