Clinical & Experimental Cardiology

Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
Open Access

ISSN: 2155-9880

Review Article - (2013) Volume 0, Issue 0

Evidence of a Role for Tensile Loading in the Pathogenesis of Mitral Valve Degeneration

Carla M. R. Lacerda* and E. Christopher Orton
Department of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
*Corresponding Author: Carla M. R. Lacerda, Department of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University, Campus Delivery 1678, Fort Collins CO 80523, USA, Tel: 970-297-5010, Fax: 970-297-1275 Email:

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