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These articles scored the most hits on Heart’s website during November 2004

1 Should all patients with an acute myocardial infarction be referred for direct PTCA?

PP de Jaegere, PW Serruys, ML Simoons

November 2004;90:1352–7. (Education in Heart)

2. Theory and practice of defibrillation: (1) Atrial fibrillation and DC conversion

AAJ Adgey, SJ Walsh

December 2004;90:1493–8. (Education in Heart)

3 Warfarin for non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation: five year experience in a district general hospital

ZR Yousef, SC Tandy, V Tudor, F Jishi, RJ Trent, DK Watson, RPW Cowell

November 2004;90:1259–62. (Cardiovascular medicine)

4 Management of hypertension before, during, and after pregnancy

PR James, C Nelson-Piercy

December 2004;90:1499–504. (Education in Heart)

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

December 1998;80:1–29.

6 Pathologic assessment of the vulnerable human coronary plaque

FD Kolodgie, R Virmani, AP Burke, A Farb, DK Weber, R Kutys, AV Finn, HK Gold

December 2004;90:1385–91. (Mini-symposium)

7 Management of acute coronary syndromes: an update

KAA Fox

June 2004;90:698–706. (Education in Heart)

8 Biochemical markers of myocyte injury in heart failure

Y Sato, T Kita, Y Takatsu, T Kimura

October 2004;90:1110–3. (Review)

9 Plaque stabilisation in coronary artery disease: introduction

B Meier

December 2004;90:1384. (Mini-symposium)

10 Tissue Doppler, strain, and strain rate echocardiography for the assessment of left and right systolic ventricular function

D Pellerin, R Sharma, P Elliott, C Veyrat

November 2003;89(suppl III):iii9–17. (Supplement)

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