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These articles scored the most hits on Heart’s website during October 2003

Left ventricular remodelling after myocardial infarction: importance of residual myocardial viability and ischaemia

C A Visser

October 2003;89:1121–2. (Editorial)

Basic aspects of plaque vulnerability

A Lafont

October 2003;89:1262–7. (Education in Heart)

Antiplatelet treatment in stable coronary artery disease

C J Knight

October 2003;89:1273–78. (Education in Heart)

Plaque stabilisation in acute coronary syndromes: clinical considerations

A D Timmis

October 2003;89:1268–72. (Education in Heart)

Inflammatory and thrombotic mechanisms in coronary atherosclerosis

D Tousoulis, G Davies, C Stefanadis, P Toutouzas, JA Ambrose

September 2003;89:993–7. (Review)

Atrial fibrillation: classification, pathophysiology, mechanisms and drug treatment

V Markides, RJ Schilling

August 2003;89:939–43. (Education in Heart)

Joint British recommendations on prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practice

December 2001, 1998;80:1–29.

Influence of contractile reserve and inducible ischaemia on left ventricular remodelling after acute myocardial infarction

C Coletta, A Sestili, F Seccareccia, R Rambaldi, R Ricci, A Galati, R Bigi, N Aspromonte, M Renzi, V Ceci

October 2003;89:1138–43. (Cardiovascular medicine)

Practical aspects of the management of pericardial disease

B Maisch, A D Ristic

September 2003;89:1096–103. (Education in Heart)

Off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery: the incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation

R A Archbold, N P Curzen

October 2003;89:1134–7. (Review)

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