Authors/Task Force Members: Alec Vahanian (Chairperson) (France)*, Ottavio Alfieri (Chairperson)* (Italy), Felicita Andreotti (Italy), Manuel J. Antunes (Portugal), Gonzalo Baron-Esquivias (Spain), Helmut Baumgartner (Germany), Michael Andrew Borger (Germany), Thierry P. Carrel (Switzerland), Michele De Bonis (Italy), Arturo Evangelista (Spain), Volkmar Falk (Switzerland), Bernard Iung (France), Patrizio Lancellotti (Belgium), Luc Pierard (Belgium), Susanna Price (UK), Hans-Joachim Schafers (Germany), Gerhard Schuler (Germany), Janina Stepinska (Poland), Karl Swedberg (Sweden), Johanna Takkenberg (The Netherlands), Ulrich Otto Von Oppell (UK), Stephan Windecker (Switzerland), Jose Luis Zamorano (Spain), Marian Zembala (Poland)

Authors/Task Force Members: A. John Camm (Chairperson) (UK)*, Gregory Y.H. Lip (UK), Raffaele De Caterina (Italy), Irene Savelieva (UK), Dan Atar (Norway), Stefan H. Hohnloser (Germany), Gerhard Hindricks (Germany), Paulus Kirchhof (UK)

Authors/Task Force Members: Ph. Gabriel Steg (Chairperson) (France)*, Stefan K. James (Chairperson) (Sweden)*, Dan Atar (Norway), Luigi P. Badano (Italy), Carina Blomstrom Lundqvist (Sweden), Michael A. Borger (Germany), Carlo Di Mario (United Kingdom), Kenneth Dickstein (Norway), Gregory Ducrocq (France), Francisco Fernandez-Aviles (Spain), Anthony H. Gershlick (United Kingdom), Pantaleo Giannuzzi (Italy), Sigrun Halvorsen (Norway), Kurt Huber (Austria), Peter Juni (Switzerland), Adnan Kastrati (Germany), Juhani Knuuti (Finland), Mattie J. Lenzen (Netherlands), Kenneth W. Mahaffey (USA), Marco Valgimigli (Italy), Arnoud van’t Hof (Netherlands), PetrWidimsky (Czech Republic), Doron Zahger (Israel)

Authors/Task Force Members: John J.V. McMurray (Chairperson) (UK)*, Stamatis Adamopoulos (Greece), Stefan D. Anker (Germany), Angelo Auricchio (Switzerland), Michael Bohm (Germany), Kenneth Dickstein (Norway), Volkmar Falk (Switzerland), Gerasimos Filippatos (Greece), Candida Fonseca (Portugal), Miguel Angel Gomez-Sanchez (Spain), Tiny Jaarsma (Sweden), Lars Køber (Denmark), Gregory Y.H. Lip (UK), Aldo Pietro Maggioni (Italy), Alexander Parkhomenko (Ukraine), Burkert M. Pieske (Austria), Bogdan A. Popescu (Romania), Per K. Rønnevik (Norway), Frans H. Rutten (The Netherlands), Juerg Schwitter (Switzerland), Petar Seferovic (Serbia), Janina Stepinska (Poland), Pedro T. Trindade (Switzerland), Adriaan A. Voors (The Netherlands), Faiez Zannad (France), Andreas Zeiher (Germany).

Authors/Task Force Members: Joep Perk (Chairperson) (Sweden)*, Guy De Backer1 (Belgium), Helmut Gohlke1 (Germany), Ian Graham1 (Ireland), Zˇ eljko Reiner2 (Croatia), W.M. Monique Verschuren1 (The Netherlands), Christian Albus3 (Germany), Pascale Benlian1 (France), Gudrun Boysen4 (Denmark), Renata Cifkova5 (Czech Republic), Christi Deaton1 (UK), Shah Ebrahim1 (UK), Miles Fisher6 (UK), Giuseppe Germano1 (Italy), Richard Hobbs1,7 (UK), Arno Hoes7 (The Netherlands), Sehnaz Karadeniz8 (Turkey), Alessandro Mezzani1 (Italy), Eva Prescott1 (Denmark), Lars Ryden1 (Sweden), Martin Scherer7 (Germany), Mikko Syva¨nne9 (Finland), Wilma J.M. Scholte Op Reimer1 (The Netherlands), Christiaan Vrints1 (Belgium),
David Wood1 (UK), Jose Luis Zamorano1 (Spain), Faiez Zannad1 (France).

La dénervation rénale par voie endovasculaire est une méthode nouvelle pour laquelle une étude clinique randomisée a montré une baisse de la pression artérielle chez des hypertendus résistants aux médicaments antihypertenseurs.