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Reiffel JA. Antiarrhythmic Drugs for Atrial Fibrillation: Selected Features of Ventricular Repolarization That Facilitate Proarrhythmic Torsades de Pointes and Favor Inpatient Initiation. J Innov Card Rhythm Manag 2021; 12:4600-4605. [PMID: 34327046 PMCID: PMC8313184 DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2021.120704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The management approaches to patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) include rhythm-control strategies for those patients who are symptomatic despite rate control and for selected others in whom sinus rhythm is necessary for reasons beyond current symptoms (including commercial pilots, those who are felt likely to develop symptoms as comorbidities progress, and more). First-line therapies among the rhythm-control options are antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs). For many AADs, their initiation in-hospital is either a requirement or strongly advised- especially when the patient is in AF. This article explores some of the rationale behind this requirement to give clinicians a better understanding of the reasons for this undesired inconvenience.
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Arrhythmogenic drugs can amplify spatial heterogeneities in the electrical restitution in perfused guinea-pig heart: An evidence from assessments of monophasic action potential durations and JT intervals. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0191514. [PMID: 29352276 PMCID: PMC5774816 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2017] [Accepted: 01/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Non-uniform shortening of the action potential duration (APD90) in different myocardial regions upon heart rate acceleration can set abnormal repolarization gradients and promote arrhythmia. This study examined whether spatial heterogeneities in APD90 restitution can be amplified by drugs with clinically proved proarrhythmic potential (dofetilide, quinidine, procainamide, and flecainide) and, if so, whether these effects can translate to the appropriate changes of the ECG metrics of ventricular repolarization, such as JT intervals. In isolated, perfused guinea-pig heart preparations, monophasic action potentials and volume-conducted ECG were recorded at progressively increased pacing rates. The APD90 measured at distinct ventricular sites, as well as the JTpeak and JTend values were plotted as a function of preceding diastolic interval, and the maximum slopes of the restitution curves were determined at baseline and upon drug administration. Dofetilide, quinidine, and procainamide reverse rate-dependently prolonged APD90 and steepened the restitution curve, with effects being greater at the endocardium than epicardium, and in the right ventricular (RV) vs. the left ventricular (LV) chamber. The restitution slope was increased to a greater extent for the JTend vs. the JTpeak interval. In contrast, flecainide reduced the APD90 restitution slope at LV epicardium without producing effect at LV endocardium and RV epicardium, and reduced the JTpeak restitution slope without changing the JTend restitution. Nevertheless, with all agents, these effects translated to the amplified epicardial-to-endocardial and the LV-to-RV non-uniformities in APD90 restitution, paralleled by the increased JTend vs. JTpeak difference in the restitution slope. In summary, these findings suggest that arrhythmic drug profiles are partly attributable to the accentuated regional heterogeneities in APD90 restitution, which can be indirectly determined through ECG assessments of the JTend vs. JTpeak dynamics at variable pacing rates.
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Jacquemet V, Gravel H, Curnier D, Vinet A. Theoretical and experimental comparison of lag-based and time-based exponential moving average models of QT hysteresis. Physiol Meas 2017; 38:1885-1905. [PMID: 28885987 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/aa8b59] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVE In the electrocardiogram, adaptation of the QT interval to variations in heart rate is not instantaneous. Quantification of this hysteresis phenomenon relies on mathematical models describing the relation between the RR and QT time series. These models reproduce hysteresis through an effective RR interval computed as a linear combination of the history of past RR intervals. This filter depends on a time constant parameter that may be used as a biomarker. APPROACH The most common hysteresis model is based on an autoregressive filter with an impulse response that decreases exponentially with the beat number (lag-based model). Recognizing that the QT time series is unevenly spaced, we propose two exponential moving average filters (time-based models) to define the effective RR interval: one with an impulse response that decreases exponentially with time in seconds, and one with a step response that relaxes exponentially with time in seconds. These two filters are neither linear nor time-invariant. Recurrence formulas are derived to enable efficient implementation. MAIN RESULTS Application to clinical signals recorded during tilt table test, exercise and 24 h Holter demonstrates that the three models perform similarly in terms of goodness-of-fit. When comparing the hysteresis time constant in two conditions with different heart rates, however, the time-based models are shown to reduce the bias on the hysteresis time constant caused by heart rate acceleration and deceleration. SIGNIFICANCE Time-based models should be considered when intergroup differences in both heart rate and QT hysteresis are expected.
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- Vincent Jacquemet
- Département de Pharmacologie et Physiologie, Institut de Génie Biomédical, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada. Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Centre de Recherche, Montréal, Canada
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Osadchii OE. Role of abnormal repolarization in the mechanism of cardiac arrhythmia. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2017; 220 Suppl 712:1-71. [PMID: 28707396 DOI: 10.1111/apha.12902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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In cardiac patients, life-threatening tachyarrhythmia is often precipitated by abnormal changes in ventricular repolarization and refractoriness. Repolarization abnormalities typically evolve as a consequence of impaired function of outward K+ currents in cardiac myocytes, which may be caused by genetic defects or result from various acquired pathophysiological conditions, including electrical remodelling in cardiac disease, ion channel modulation by clinically used pharmacological agents, and systemic electrolyte disorders seen in heart failure, such as hypokalaemia. Cardiac electrical instability attributed to abnormal repolarization relies on the complex interplay between a provocative arrhythmic trigger and vulnerable arrhythmic substrate, with a central role played by the excessive prolongation of ventricular action potential duration, impaired intracellular Ca2+ handling, and slowed impulse conduction. This review outlines the electrical activity of ventricular myocytes in normal conditions and cardiac disease, describes classical electrophysiological mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmia, and provides an update on repolarization-related surrogates currently used to assess arrhythmic propensity, including spatial dispersion of repolarization, activation-repolarization coupling, electrical restitution, TRIaD (triangulation, reverse use dependence, instability, and dispersion), and the electromechanical window. This is followed by a discussion of the mechanisms that account for the dependence of arrhythmic vulnerability on the location of the ventricular pacing site. Finally, the review clarifies the electrophysiological basis for cardiac arrhythmia produced by hypokalaemia, and gives insight into the clinical importance and pathophysiology of drug-induced arrhythmia, with particular focus on class Ia (quinidine, procainamide) and Ic (flecainide) Na+ channel blockers, and class III antiarrhythmic agents that block the delayed rectifier K+ channel (dofetilide).
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- O. E. Osadchii
- Department of Health Science and Technology; University of Aalborg; Aalborg Denmark
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Zeng M, Jiang W, Tian Y, Hao J, Cao Z, Liu Z, Fu C, Zhang P, Ma J. Andrographolide inhibits arrhythmias and is cardioprotective in rabbits. Oncotarget 2017; 8:61226-61238. [PMID: 28977859 PMCID: PMC5617419 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.18051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Andrographolide has a protective effect on the cardiovascular system. To study its cardic-electrophysiological effects, action potentials and voltage-gated Na+ (INa), Ca2+ (ICaL), and K+ (IK1, IKr, Ito and IKur) currents were recorded using whole-cell patch clamp and current clamp techniques. Additionally, the effects of andrographolide on aconitine-induced arrhythmias were assessed on electrocardiograms in vivo. We found that andrographolide shortened action potential duration and reduced maximum upstroke velocity in rabbit left ventricular and left atrial myocytes. Andrographolide attenuated rate-dependence of action potential duration, and reduced or abolished delayed afterdepolarizations and triggered activities induced by isoproterenol (1 μM) and high calcium ([Ca2+]o=3.6 mM) in left ventricular myocytes. Andrographolide also concentration-dependently inhibited INa and ICaL, but had no effect on Ito, IKur, IK1, or IKr in rabbit left ventricular and left atrial myocytes. Andrographolide treatment increased the time and dosage thresholds of aconitine-induced arrhythmias, and reduced arrhythmia incidence and mortality in rabbits. Our results indicate that andrographolide inhibits cellular arrhythmias (delayed afterdepolarizations and triggered activities) and aconitine-induced arrhythmias in vivo, and these effects result from INa and ICaL inhibition. Andrographolide may be useful as a class I and IV antiarrhythmic therapeutic.
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- Mengliu Zeng
- Cardio-Electrophysiological Research Laboratory, Medical College of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Cardio-Electrophysiological Research Laboratory, Medical College of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Cardio-Electrophysiological Research Laboratory, Medical College of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Cardio-Electrophysiological Research Laboratory, Medical College of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Cardio-Electrophysiological Research Laboratory, Medical College of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Cardio-Electrophysiological Research Laboratory, Medical College of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Cardio-Electrophysiological Research Laboratory, Medical College of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Cardio-Electrophysiological Research Laboratory, Medical College of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Cardio-Electrophysiological Research Laboratory, Medical College of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Gravel H, Curnier D, Dahdah N, Jacquemet V. Categorization and theoretical comparison of quantitative methods for assessing QT/RR hysteresis. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol 2017; 22. [PMID: 28510313 DOI: 10.1111/anec.12463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2017] [Accepted: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In the human electrocardiogram, there is a lag of adaptation of the QT interval to heart rate changes, usually termed QT/RR hysteresis (QT-hys). Subject-specific quantifiers of QT-hys have been proposed as potential biomarkers, but there is no consensus on the choice of the quantifier. METHODS A comprehensive literature search was conducted to identify original articles reporting quantifiers of repolarization hysteresis from the surface ECG in humans. RESULTS Sixty articles fulfilled our inclusion criteria. Reported biomarkers were grouped under four categories. A simple mathematical model of QT/RR loop was used to illustrate differences between the methods. Category I quantifiers use direct measurement of QT time course of adaptation. They are limited to conditions where RR intervals are under strict control. Category IIa and IIb quantifiers compare QT responses during consecutive heart rate acceleration and deceleration. They are relevant when a QT/RR loop is observed, typically during exercise and recovery, but are not robust to protocol variations. Category III quantifiers evaluate the optimum RR memory in dynamic QT/RR relationship modeling. They estimate an intrinsic memory parameter independent from the nature of RR changes, but their reliability remains to be confirmed when multiple memory parameters are estimated. Promising approaches include the differentiation of short-term and long-term memory and adaptive estimation of memory parameters. CONCLUSION Model-based approaches to QT-hys assessment appear to be the most versatile, as they allow separate quantification of QT/RR dependency and QT-hys, and can be applied to a wide range of experimental settings.
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- Hugo Gravel
- Department of Kinesiology, University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology and CHU Ste-Justine Research Center, CHU Ste-Justine, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Osadchii OE. Flecainide attenuates rate adaptation of ventricular repolarization in guinea-pig heart. SCAND CARDIOVASC J 2015; 50:28-35. [DOI: 10.3109/14017431.2015.1099721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Oleg E. Osadchii
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark
- Department of Health Science and Technology, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
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Kharche SR, Stary T, Colman MA, Biktasheva IV, Workman AJ, Rankin AC, Holden AV, Zhang H. Effects of human atrial ionic remodelling by β-blocker therapy on mechanisms of atrial fibrillation: a computer simulation. Europace 2014; 16:1524-33. [PMID: 25085203 DOI: 10.1093/europace/euu084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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AIMS Atrial anti-arrhythmic effects of β-adrenoceptor antagonists (β-blockers) may involve both a suppression of pro-arrhythmic effects of catecholamines, and an adaptational electrophysiological response to chronic β-blocker use; so-called 'pharmacological remodelling'. In human atrium, such remodelling decreases the transient outward (Ito) and inward rectifier (IK1) K(+) currents, and increases the cellular action potential duration (APD) and effective refractory period (ERP). However, the consequences of these changes on mechanisms of genesis and maintenance of atrial fibrillation (AF) are unknown. Using mathematical modelling, we tested the hypothesis that the long-term adaptational decrease in human atrial Ito and IK1 caused by chronic β-blocker therapy, i.e. independent of acute electrophysiological effects of β-blockers, in an otherwise un-remodelled atrium, could suppress AF. METHODS AND RESULTS Contemporarily, biophysically detailed human atrial cell and tissue models were used to investigate effects of the β-blocker-based pharmacological remodelling. Chronic β-blockade remodelling prolonged atrial cell APD and ERP. The incidence of small amplitude APD alternans in the CRN model was reduced. At the 1D tissue level, β-blocker remodelling decreased the maximum pacing rate at which APs could be conducted. At the three-dimensional organ level, β-blocker remodelling reduced the life span of re-entry scroll waves. CONCLUSION This study improves our understanding of the electrophysiological mechanisms of AF suppression by chronic β-blocker therapy. Atrial fibrillation suppression may involve a reduced propensity for maintenance of re-entrant excitation waves, as a consequence of increased APD and ERP.
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- Sanjay R Kharche
- College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK Biological Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK
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- Biological Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Department of Computer Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, 126 University Place, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK
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- School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS6 9JT, UK
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- Biological Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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Bueno-Orovio A, Sánchez C, Pueyo E, Rodriguez B. Na/K pump regulation of cardiac repolarization: insights from a systems biology approach. Pflugers Arch 2013; 466:183-93. [PMID: 23674099 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-013-1293-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2013] [Revised: 05/02/2013] [Accepted: 05/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The sodium-potassium pump is widely recognized as the principal mechanism for active ion transport across the cellular membrane of cardiac tissue, being responsible for the creation and maintenance of the transarcolemmal sodium and potassium gradients, crucial for cardiac cell electrophysiology. Importantly, sodium-potassium pump activity is impaired in a number of major diseased conditions, including ischemia and heart failure. However, its subtle ways of action on cardiac electrophysiology, both directly through its electrogenic nature and indirectly via the regulation of cell homeostasis, make it hard to predict the electrophysiological consequences of reduced sodium-potassium pump activity in cardiac repolarization. In this review, we discuss how recent studies adopting the systems biology approach, through the integration of experimental and modeling methodologies, have identified the sodium-potassium pump as one of the most important ionic mechanisms in regulating key properties of cardiac repolarization and its rate dependence, from subcellular to whole organ levels. These include the role of the pump in the biphasic modulation of cellular repolarization and refractoriness, the rate control of intracellular sodium and calcium dynamics and therefore of the adaptation of repolarization to changes in heart rate, as well as its importance in regulating pro-arrhythmic substrates through modulation of dispersion of repolarization and restitution. Theoretical findings are consistent across a variety of cell types and species including human, and widely in agreement with experimental findings. The novel insights and hypotheses on the role of the pump in cardiac electrophysiology obtained through this integrative approach could eventually lead to novel therapeutic and diagnostic strategies.
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- Alfonso Bueno-Orovio
- Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QD, UK,
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Wu L, Ma J, Li H, Wang C, Grandi E, Zhang P, Luo A, Bers DM, Shryock JC, Belardinelli L. Late sodium current contributes to the reverse rate-dependent effect of IKr inhibition on ventricular repolarization. Circulation 2011; 123:1713-20. [PMID: 21482963 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.110.000661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND The reverse rate dependence (RRD) of actions of I(Kr)-blocking drugs to increase the action potential duration (APD) and beat-to-beat variability of repolarization (BVR) of APD is proarrhythmic. We determined whether inhibition of endogenous, physiological late Na(+) current (late I(Na)) attenuates the RRD and proarrhythmic effect of I(Kr) inhibition. METHODS AND RESULTS Duration of the monophasic APD (MAPD) was measured from female rabbit hearts paced at cycle lengths from 400 to 2000 milliseconds, and BVR was calculated. In the absence of a drug, duration of monophasic action potential at 90% completion of repolarization (MAPD(90)) and BVR increased as the cycle length was increased from 400 to 2000 milliseconds (n=36 and 26; P<0.01). Both E-4031 (20 nmol/L) and d-sotalol (10 μmol/L) increased MAPD(90) and BVR at all stimulation rates, and the increase was greater at slower than at faster pacing rates (n=19, 11, 12 and 7, respectively; P<0.01). Tetrodotoxin (1 μmol/L) and ranolazine significantly attenuated the RRD of MAPD(90,) reduced BVR (P<0.01), and abolished torsade de pointes in hearts treated with either 20 nmol/L E-4031 or 10 μmol/L d-sotalol. Endogenous late I(Na) in cardiomyocytes stimulated at cycle lengths from 500 to 4000 milliseconds was greater at slower than at faster stimulation rates, and rapidly decreased during the first several beats at faster but not at slower rates (n=8; P<0.01). In a computational model, simulated RRD of APD caused by E-4031 and d-sotalol was attenuated when late I(Na) was inhibited. CONCLUSION Endogenous late I(Na) contributes to the RRD of I(Kr) inhibitor-induced increases in APD and BVR and to bradycardia-related ventricular arrhythmias.
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- Lin Wu
- Department of Biology, Gilead Sciences, 1651 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
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Pueyo E, Husti Z, Hornyik T, Baczkó I, Laguna P, Varró A, Rodríguez B. Mechanisms of ventricular rate adaptation as a predictor of arrhythmic risk. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2010; 298:H1577-87. [DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00936.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Protracted QT interval (QTI) adaptation to abrupt heart rate (HR) changes has been identified as a clinical arrhythmic risk marker. This study investigates the ionic mechanisms of QTI rate adaptation and its relationship to arrhythmic risk. Computer simulations and experimental recordings in human and canine ventricular tissue were used to investigate the ionic basis of QTI and action potential duration (APD) to abrupt changes in HR with a protocol commonly used in clinical studies. The time for 90% QTI adaptation is 3.5 min in simulations, in agreement with experimental and clinical data in humans. APD adaptation follows similar dynamics, being faster in midmyocardial cells (2.5 min) than in endocardial and epicardial cells (3.5 min). Both QTI and APD adapt in two phases following an abrupt HR change: a fast initial phase with time constant < 30 s, mainly related to L-type calcium and slow-delayed rectifier potassium current, and a second slow phase of >2 min driven by intracellular sodium concentration ([Na+]i) dynamics. Alterations in [Na+]i dynamics due to Na+/K+ pump current inhibition result in protracted rate adaptation and are associated with increased proarrhythmic risk, as indicated by action potential triangulation and faster L-type calcium current recovery from inactivation, leading to the formation of early afterdepolarizations. In conclusion, this study suggests that protracted QTI adaptation could be an indicator of altered [Na+]i dynamics following Na+/K+ pump inhibition as it occurs in patients with ischemia or heart failure. An increased risk of cardiac arrhythmias in patients with protracted rate adaptation may be due to an increased risk of early afterdepolarization formation.
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- Esther Pueyo
- Oxford University Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina, Zaragoza, Spain; and
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- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, University of Szeged, and
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- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, University of Szeged, and
- Research Unit for Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, University of Szeged, and
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- Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina, Zaragoza, Spain; and
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- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, University of Szeged, and
- Research Unit for Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
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- Oxford University Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Eisner DA, Dibb KM, Trafford AW. The mechanism and significance of the slow changes of ventricular action potential duration following a change of heart rate. Exp Physiol 2009; 94:520-8. [PMID: 19270038 DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2008.044008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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This article reviews the effects of changes of heart rate on the ventricular action potential duration. These can be divided into short term (fractions of a second), resulting from the kinetics of recovery of membrane currents, through to long term (up to days), resulting from changes of protein expression. We concentrate on the medium-term changes (time course of the order of 100 s). These medium-term changes occur in isolated tissues and in the intact human heart. They may protect against cardiac arrhythmias. Finally, we discuss the cellular mechanisms responsible for these changes.
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- D A Eisner
- University of Manchester, Unit of Cardiac Physiology, 3.18 Core Technology Facility, Manchester, UK.
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Pueyo E, Martínez JP, Laguna P. Cardiac repolarization analysis using the surface electrocardiogram. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2009; 367:213-233. [PMID: 18952549 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a challenging health problem in the western world. Analysis of cardiac repolarization from the electrocardiogram (ECG) provides valuable information for stratifying patients according to their risk of suffering from arrhythmic events that could end in SCD, as well as for assessing efficacy of antiarrhythmic therapies. In this paper, we start by exploring the cellular basis of ECG repolarization waveforms under both normal and pathological conditions. We then describe basic preprocessing steps that need to be accomplished on the ECG signal before extracting repolarization indices. A comprehensive review of techniques aimed to characterize spatial or temporal repolarization dispersion is provided, together with a summary of their usefulness for clinical risk stratification. Techniques that describe spatial dispersion of repolarization are based on either differences in repolarization duration or T-wave loop morphology. Techniques that evaluate temporal dispersion of repolarization include the analysis of QT interval adaptation to heart rate changes, QT interval and T-wave variability, and T-wave alternans.
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- Esther Pueyo
- Communications Technology Group, Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A), University of Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.
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