Below are the most popular clinical content items of 2017, developed by the ACC.org Clinical Topic Collection editorial teams and the Certified Editorial Board.

Expert Analysis Articles

• How Long Should We Continue Beta-Blockers After MI?
• AACE and EAS Lipid Guidelines
• Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement Therapies
• Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion
• LBBB in Patients With Suspected MI: An Evolving Paradigm
• Physical Activity Recommendations in Patients With Acute Pericarditis
• FFR in 2017: Current Status in PCI Management
• Sacubitril/Valsartan Combination Drug: 2 Years Later
• Pathophysiology and Diagnosis of Constrictive Pericarditis
• We Must Measure and Target LDL Cholesterol Levels After MI to Improve Outcomes

Patient Case Quizzes

• Early Morning Palpitations
• ECG of the Month: Patient Presents with Palpitations and Dyspnea
• ECG of the Month: 82-Year-Old Man Presents to ER for Chest Discomfort
• ECG of the Month: Patient Presents with a One-Week Increase in Dyspnea and Orthopnea
• ECG of the Month: Patient Admitted for Weakness and Lethargy
• AFib With Pre-Excitation
• ECG of the Month: 49-Year-Old Male Presents with Progressive Shortness of Breath, Postural Syncope, and Palpitations
• ECG of the Month: 21-Year-Old Male Presents with Exertional Syncope with an Abnormal ECG
• ECG of the Month: A 32-Year-Old Woman Presents with New Onset of Cough, Fever and Fatigue
• Chest Pain After Pacemaker Implantation

Certified Patient Cases

• Mitral Valve Prolapse: Systolic Murmur and Palpitations
• Imaging Case Series: Transient Ischemic Dilation
• ACHD Case Series: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
• Positional Ventricular Tachycardia
• Managing Patients with High Risk NSTEMI: Patient Presents with Recurrent Chest Pain and Troponin Elevation
• Guideline Education: A 19-Year-Old Basketball Player Presents With Recurrent Syncope While Exercising
• ACHD Case Series: Atrial Septal Defect
• Imaging Case Series: Vascular Territories on SPECT Imaging (Nuclear)
• Guideline Education: Medical Therapy and ICD Placement in Patients with HFrEF
• Intermediate Risk Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis

Clinical Topics: Acute Coronary Syndromes, Anticoagulation Management, Arrhythmias and Clinical EP, Cardiac Surgery, Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Disease, Dyslipidemia, Geriatric Cardiology, Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies, Invasive Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention, Noninvasive Imaging, Pericardial Disease, Prevention, Pulmonary Hypertension and Venous Thromboembolism, Sports and Exercise Cardiology, Stable Ischemic Heart Disease, Vascular Medicine, Anticoagulation Management and ACS, Implantable Devices, SCD/Ventricular Arrhythmias, Atrial Fibrillation/Supraventricular Arrhythmias, Cardiac Surgery and Arrhythmias, Cardiac Surgery and CHD and Pediatrics, Cardiac Surgery and Heart Failure, Cardiac Surgery and SIHD, Congenital Heart Disease, CHD and Pediatrics and Arrhythmias, CHD and Pediatrics and Imaging, CHD and Pediatrics and Interventions, CHD and Pediatrics and Prevention, Acute Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, Interventions and ACS, Interventions and Imaging, Interventions and Structural Heart Disease, Interventions and Vascular Medicine, Angiography, Nuclear Imaging, Hypertension, Sleep Apnea, Sports and Exercise and Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, Sports and Exercise and Imaging, Chronic Angina

Keywords: Acute Coronary Syndrome, Anticoagulants, Arrhythmias, Cardiac, Cardiac Surgical Procedures, Metabolic Syndrome, Angina, Stable, Heart Defects, Congenital, Dyslipidemias, Geriatrics, Heart Failure, Angiography, Diagnostic Imaging, Pericarditis, Secondary Prevention, Hypertension, Pulmonary, Sleep Apnea Syndromes, Sports, Aneurysm

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