Initial Invasive or Conservative Strategy for Stable Coronary Disease

David J Maron¹, Judith S Hochman¹, Harmony R Reynolds¹+54

• ¹From the Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford (D.J.M., R.A.H.), and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles (D.S.B.) - both in California; New York University Grossman School of Medicine (J.S.H., H.R.R., S. Bangalore, J.S.B., J.D.N., S.M.), Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian Hospital (L.J.S.), Cleerly (J.K.M.), the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (Z.A.A., G.W.S.), Columbia University Irving Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital (Z.A.A.), and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (G.W.S.), New York, Albany Medical College and Albany Medical Center, Albany (M.S.S.), and St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn (Z.A.A.) - all in New York; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham (S.M.O., K.P.A., R.D.L., D.B.M., F.W.R., S. Broderick), and Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville (T.B.F.) - both in North Carolina; Veterans Affairs (VA) New England Healthcare System and Boston University School of Medicine (W.E.B.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School (M.H.P.), and Brigham and Women's Hospital (R.Y.K., D.O.W.) - all in Boston; Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis (B.R.C.), and the Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City (J.A.S.); Northwick Park Hospital (R.S., A.E.) and Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital (R.S.) - all in London; Hospital Universitario La Paz, Instituto de Investigación de La Paz, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Cardiovascular, Madrid (J.L.-S.), and Complejo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruna, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Cardiovascular, A Coruna (J.P.) - all in Spain; Canadian Heart Research Centre and St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto (S.G.G.), Montreal Heart Institute Research Center, Montreal (G.G.), and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (G.B.J.M.) - all in Canada; the Department of Coronary and Structural Heart Diseases (M.D.), National Institute of Cardiology (W.R., M.D., H.S.), Warsaw, Poland; Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri, Florence, Italy (A.P.M.); Auckland Hospital Green Lane Cardiovascular Services, Auckland, New Zealand (H.D.W.); All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (B.B.), Government Medical College Kozhikode, Kerala (M.N.K.), and Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, Bangalore (N.M.) - all in India; Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (W.A.H.); Emory University School of Medicine-Atlanta VA Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia (K.M.); the National Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, Moscow (O.B.); Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (T.D.M.); Praxisklinik Herz und Gefaesse, Dresden, Germany (R.D.); Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary (M.K.); Flinders University, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia (J.B.S.); Université de Paris, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, and INSERM Unité 1148, Paris (P.G.S.); the Department of Medical Sciences, Cardiology, Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (C.H.); Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo (S.K.); the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (R.K., N.O.J., Y.R.); and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville (F.E.H.).