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ReviewReviews in cardiovascular medicine2026

Targeting the Sarcomere: Myosin Inhibitors as the Revolutionary Game Changer in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.

Farbod Sedaghat-Hamedani, Elham Kayvanpour, Benjamin Meder

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Review in Reviews in cardiovascular medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Farbod Sedaghat-HamedaniDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology, Institut für Cardiomyopathien Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3266-0527
Elham KayvanpourDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology, Institut für Cardiomyopathien Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7285-2825
Benjamin MederDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology, Institut für Cardiomyopathien Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0741-2633

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) represents the most common inherited cardiac disease and a leading cause of heart failure, arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death in young individuals. For decades, management of HCM has relied on symptom control with β-blockers, calcium channel blockers, disopyramide, or invasive septal reduction in advanced cases. The identification of pathogenic sarcomere variants and the recognition of hypercontractility as a central disease mechanism have paved the way for cardiac myosin inhibitors (CMIs), the first truly disease-specific pharmacological therapy for HCM. Indeed, CMIs represent a revolutionary therapeutic paradigm that redefines the standard of care by translating molecular discovery into clinical application. This review provides a guide to the mechanistic basis of sarcomere modulation, summarizes the clinical evidence for mavacamten and aficamten, and critically evaluates the evolving roles of both medications in obstructive and non-obstructive HCM.

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aficamtenhypertrophic cardiomyopathymavacamtenmyosin heavy chainsmyosin inhibitorsprecision medicine

Identifiers

PMID41659088
PMCPMC12873663

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