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Traditionally, CTIs are estimated by ultrasound (US) techniques, but they may also be more easily assessed by the identification of specific fiducial points (FPs) inside the waveform of the seismocardiogram (SCG), i.e., the measure of the thorax micro-accelerations produced by the heart motion. While the correspondence of the FPs with the valve movements has been verified in healthy subjects, less information is available on whether this methodology may be routinely employed in the clinical practice for the monitoring of cardiac patients, in which an SCG waveform distortion is expected because of the heart dysfunction. In this study we checked the SCG shape in 90 patients with myocardial infarction (MI), heart failure (HF), or transplanted heart (TX), referred to our hospital for rehabilitation after an acute event or after surgery. The SCG shapes were classified as traditional (T) or non-traditional (NT) on whether the FPs were visible or not on the basis of nomenclature previously proposed in literature. The T shape was present in 62% of the patients, with a higher \u2213 prevalence in MI (79%). No relationship was found between T prevalence and ejection fraction (EF). In 20 patients with T shape, we checked the FPs correspondence with the real valve movements by concomitant SCG and US measures. When compared with reference values in healthy subjects available in the literature, we observed that the Echo vs. FP differences are significantly more dispersed in the patients than in the healthy population with higher differences for the estimation of the mitral valve closure (\u221217 vs. 4 ms on average). 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