Lucas Lauder and Felix Mahfoud provide a summary of the ESC Guidelines on elevated blood pressure and hypertension presented by John William McEvoy and Rhian Touyz at ESC Congress 2024 in London.

Ali Nazmi Calik provides his take on the long-term results of the SPYRAL HTN-ON MED trial which demonstrated the durable efficacy and safety of RDN in patients who are already on one to three antihypertensive drugs.

The world is facing unprecedented challenges as a result of a bug called COVID-19 (Sars-CoV-2) that has literally gone “viral” across the globe affecting >250K individuals in 183/195 countries, claiming >10,000 lives in a short period of time (as of 15:00 20/3/2020). 

Ali Nazmi Calik provides his take on UNIVERSAL randomized clinical trial, which questioned whether routine ultrasonography guidance for CFA access for cardiac procedures reduces bleeding or vascular complications. This trial was presented by Sanjit S. Jolly during TCT 2022.

Authored by Hector Garcia-Garcia and Jorge Sanz-Sanchez, this article examines pivotal randomized clinical trials on drug-coated balloons in coronary artery disease. It highlights their role in managing in-stent restenosis, de novo small vessel lesions, and large vessel lesions while exploring future directions through ongoing trials.