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Does aficamten exposure safely reduce LVOT-G while maintaining LVEF in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using a flexible dose-titration regimen?
Does aficamten exposure safely reduce LVOT-G while maintaining LVEF in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using a flexible dose-titration regimen?
Aficamten exhibits a wide therapeutic window, lowering LVOT-G at a 10-fold steeper rate than LVEF relative to drug exposure, supporting the safety and efficacy of flexible 2-8 week echocardiography-guided dose titration regimens in oHCM.
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Supports flexible echo-guided aficamten titration every 2-8 weeks in oHCM; modeling leaves open prospective validation of long-term outcomes.
. LVOT-G slope was ~10-fold steeper vs. LVEF, suggesting a relatively large therapeutic window. The commercial regimen allows for individualized flexible echocardiography-based dose titration (every 2-8 weeks) from 5 to 20 mg once daily and flexible maintenance dose monitoring. CTS demonstrated minimal differences in population progression of LVOT-G < 30 mmHg and LVEF < 50% between evaluated dose-titration frequencies (every 2, 4, 6, or 8 weeks) over the first 6 months of treatment, supporting a 2-8 week window for dose titration. With maintenance doses, the probability of maintaining LVOT-G < 30 mmHg (~60%) was high and the probability of occurrences of LVEF < 50% (~3%) was low. Therefore, this regimen should maintain safe and efficacious cardiodynamics while increasing convenience and access for patients with oHCM.
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