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Ten Commandments of the European Hypertension Guidelines: Several “Sins Allowed” Compared with American Guidelines

These new hypertension guidelines (which were as long-awaited as the American ones, back then) finally emerged in...

Relive the SOLACI-SOCIME 2018 Congress

Over 2180 professionals from all over the world gathered in Mexico City to continue developing interventional cardiology in...

Antiaggregation Time after Treating Bifurcations

Defining dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) seems a never-ending story. We go from trials showing the safety of...

ESC 2018 | GLOBAL LEADERS: Ticagrelor Monotherapy Is Not Superior to Classic Therapies After Angioplasty

Dropping aspirin after the first month and continuing with ticagrelor monotherapy was not better than standard dual...

ESC 2018 | ARRIVE: Aspirin in the Eye of the Storm of Primary Prevention

Aspirin failed to reach the primary endpoint in a population that was at risk of experiencing cardiovascular...

ESC 2018 | CLARIFY: No Survival Benefit with Beta-Blockers Beyond 1 Year After Infarction

This is another study that concludes that beta-blockers have no impact on mortality at 1 year after infarction...

ESC 2018 | ASCEND: Aspirin for Primary Prevention in Diabetic Patients Fails the Cost-Benefit Analysis

The obvious risk of bleeding posed by aspirin was too clear in this work, casting a shadow...

ESC 2018 | MATRIX: 1-Year Superiority of Transradial Access

Transradial access should be the access of choice in patients with acute coronary syndrome, while bivalirudin has...