An easier time for restricted mobility in HCM patients?

Published Date: 13 Mar 2023

Electrophysiologist John Mandrola, MD. and Rachel Lampert, MD, reviewed the LIVE-HCM study comparing exercise and no exercise in people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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