Bypass Surgery Trumps PCI for Multivessel Disease : A large study has shown that bypass surgery provides a survival advantage in patients with severe occlusion.

“With these new data, can we continue to passively let the interventionalists present their position … to multivessel disease patients?” Dr. Guyton asked Dr. Smith. “With the data you presented and the data from New York, is there not now an ethical imperative to confront cardiologists with these data and to educate primary care physicians?”

Following extended applause, Dr. Smith replied, “The short answer is 'yes.'”