Heart failure & cardiomyopathiesResearch article

Mavacamten monotherapy in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: An integrated analysis of phase 3 clinical trials

Am Heart JPublished

  • integrated analysis of 4 phase 3 studies
  • pooled

Authors' conclusion

In patients with symptomatic obstructive HCM, mavacamten monotherapy was associated with improvements in clinical and echocardiographic outcomes, with a similar safety profile to that observed with mavacamten plus background HCM therapy in clinical trials.

Study context

Population
Patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) from EXPLORER-HCM, the EXPLORER cohort of MAVA-LTE, VALOR-HCM and EXPLORER-CN
Comparison
mavacamten monotherapy vs mavacamten plus beta-blockers or mavacamten plus calcium-channel blockers, by background therapy use at the time of mavacamten initiation

Main finding

As reported in the abstract

Left ventricular outflow tract gradients and symptoms
  • Mavacamten monotherapy was associated with improvements in left ventricular outflow tract gradients and symptoms
  • descriptive comparisons with patients receiving mavacamten plus beta-blockers or calcium-channel blockers suggested broadly similar trends in efficacy and adverse event rates
  • descriptive comparisons

Safety

Reductions in left ventricular ejection fraction · baseline to week 128

Reductions in left ventricular ejection fraction across treatment groups
≤8.8%

Original publication

Mavacamten monotherapy in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: An integrated analysis of phase 3 clinical trials. Am Heart J. Published 24 August 2026. doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2026.107587

Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it