Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patients (age \>= 18 years) * Cared for at GHICL Since 1st January 2011 * With chronic aortic insufficiency of any grade. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who have undergone prosthetic aortic valve surgery prior to diagnostic transthoracic echocardiography * Patients with acute heart failure * Patients with an intracardiac shunt or other complex congenital heart disease or obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy * Patients with aortic prosthesis * Patients with active endocarditis or sequelae \< 6 months old * Patients under legal protection * Patient who refused to take part in the study * Patients with other than minimal left heart valve disease (with the exception of secondary mitral insufficiency)