Progress of pharmacotherapy for myocardial hypertrophy and cardiac remodeling / 中国临床药理学与治疗学

ABSTRACT

Cardiomyopathy is a disease with abnormal myocardial structure and function. For a long time, due to the limited understanding of cardiomyopathies, cardiomyopathies are treated empirically based on symptoms (such as heart failure, arrhythmia, etc.). Over years, with the improvement of diagnosis technology and the discover of disease mechanism, a variety of drugs have been approved, such as tafamidis, patisiran and Inotersen. Many more drugs have completed preliminary safety and efficacy verification and entered Phase III trials. In addition, some cutting-edge technologies are also being developed, such as siRNA drug patisiran, CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology drug NTLA-2001, stem cell therapy, etc. This article discusses two cardiac problems that may be caused by cardiomyopathy myocardial hypertrophy and cardiac remodeling, and introduces the pharmacology and related research of the latest drugs for these diseases.