The impact of mavacamten dosing on wall thickness regression: an insight from longer term follow-up based on genetic profile

Abstract

Introduction

We have previously reported that genetically positive patients have a more profound early decrease in provocable left ventricular outflow tract gradient compared to genetically negative patients utilizing mavacamten in the first 12 weeks of therapy.

Methods and results

In this current analysis, we found that genetically positive patients have less favorable remodeling as measured by left ventricular wall thickness regression when evaluated long-term as compared to genetically negative patients, despite an overall better early response to mavacamten. The majority of genetically positive patients were maintained on only 2.5 mg of mavacamten due to early robust response.

Conclusion

We hypothesize that this lower dosing attenuated the long-term benefit of mavacamten in genetically positive patients. We believe that the long-term benefit of mavacamten on positive cardiac remodeling is dose-dependent and not solely related to the magnitude of left ventricular outflow gradient decrease.