Myocardial Stiffness Assessment by Ultrasound: Are We Ready for the Clinical "Lift Off"?

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¹ Physics for Medicine, INSERM U1273, ESPCI, CNRS, PSL Research University, Paris, France. Electronic address: mathieu.pernot@espci.fr.
² Labatt Family Heart Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Translational Medicine Department, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Mathieu Pernot et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 Nov.

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. 2020 Nov;13(11):2314-2315.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2020.07.024. Epub 2020 Sep 30.

¹ Physics for Medicine, INSERM U1273, ESPCI, CNRS, PSL Research University, Paris, France. Electronic address: mathieu.pernot@espci.fr.
² Labatt Family Heart Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Translational Medicine Department, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Keywords: heart transplantation; high frame-rate echocardiography; myocardial stiffness; shear wave.

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