Ali Nazmi Calik provides his take on the results of the OPTIMAL trial presented by Luca Testa at ACC.26 in New Orleans.

Mirvat Alasnag provides her take on the ECMO-CS trial, which was presented during AHA 2022 in Chicago, and simultaneously published in Circulation. 

Daniele Giacoppo reports and provides his perspective on the main results of the IVUS-CHIP trial, presented by Roberto Diletti from the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, during a Late-Breaking Trials session at the ACC.26 in New Orleans, and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of...

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.