Elastography is a new non-invasive medical technique for measuring the stiffness at a distance from a tissue. Recent advances in the development of elastography sequences for cardiac exploration suggest a more clinical approach to cardiac elastography. This study propose to compare myocardial stiffness of a group of coronary bypass patients without hypertrophic left ventricular remodeling or sequelae of myocardial infarction versus a group of patients who should benefit from a surgical aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis. The hypothesis is that the physiological adaptation to pressure overload constituted by aortic stenosis is responsible for a significant increase in myocardial stiffness compared to a reference group.
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to compare myocardial stiffness by ShearWave elastography on not beating heart in two groups of patients referred for surgery
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