2025 Clinical practice guidelines for Aortic insufficiency

With the participation of: the Russian Society for Cardiosomatic Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention, the Russian Society of Radiologists and Radiologists, the Russian Scientific Society of Specialists in X-ray Endovascular Diagnostics and Treatment, the All-Russian Public Organization for the Promotion of Radiation Diagnostics and Therapy

Approved by the Research and Practical Council of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (13.11.2025)

Task Force members declared no financial support/conflicts of interest. If conflicts of interest were reported, the member(s) of the working group was (were) excluded from the discussion of the sections related to the area of conflict of interest.

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