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Evaluation of Mavacamten in Symptomatic Patients With Nonobstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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Mavacamten, a novel myosin inhibitor, was well tolerated in most subjects with symptomatic nHCM and treatment was associated with a significant reduction in NT-proBNP and cTnI, suggesting improvement in myocardial wall stress.
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This article is published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology.The article was published on 2020-06-02 and is currently open access. It has received 149 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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2020 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

TL;DR: This summary operationalizes the recommendations from the full guideline and presents a combination of diagnostic work-up, genetic and family screening, risk stratification approaches, lifestyle modifications, surgical and catheter interventions, and medications that constitute components of guideline directed medical therapy.
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Mavacamten for treatment of symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (EXPLORER-HCM): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial

Iacopo Olivotto, +88 more
- 12 Sep 2020 - 
TL;DR: Treatment with mavacamten improved exercise capacity, LVOT obstruction, NYHA functional class, and health status in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and highlights the benefits of disease-specific treatment for this condition.
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Small Molecules acting on Myofilaments as Treatments for Heart and Skeletal Muscle Diseases.

TL;DR: The contractile apparatus is a promising target for new drug development according to an extensive literature review of 21 small molecules directed to five different targets, which showed a potential therapeutic value in HCM, DCM or heart failure (HF).
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Genetics, Pathogenesis, Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Therapy.

TL;DR: The routine applications of genetic testing and preclinical identification of family members represents an important advance and enhanced understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of HCM and have stimulated efforts designed to identify new therapeutic agents.
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The histologic basis of late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

TL;DR: In this patient with HCM and heart failure, regions of myocardial late gadolinium enhancement by CMR represented regions of increased myocardia collagen but not disarray.
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Myocardial Fibrosis as an Early Manifestation of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

TL;DR: Elevated levels of serum PICP indicated increased myocardial collagen synthesis in sarcomere-mutation carriers without overt disease, suggesting that collagen synthesis exceeds degradation.
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