Affiliation:
1. From the Department of Pharmacology, K.U.L., Leuven, Belgium (L.M.H.), and AstraZeneca, Research & Development, Mölndal, Sweden (L.C., G.D.).
Abstract
Background
—Prolongation of action potential duration (APD) is considered a major antiarrhythmic mechanism (class 2I), but paradoxically, it frequently is also proarrhythmic (torsade de pointes).
Methods and Results
—The cardiac electrophysiological effects of 702 chemicals (class 2I or HERG channel block) were studied in 1071 rabbit Langendorff-perfused hearts. Temporal instability of APD, triangulation (duration of phase 3 repolarization), reverse use-dependence, and induction of ectopic beats were measured. Instability, triangulation, and reverse use-dependence were found to be important determinants of proarrhythmia. Agents that lengthened the APD by >50 ms, with induction of instability, triangulation, and reverse use-dependence (n=59), induced proarrhythmia (primarily polymorphic ventricular tachycardia); in their absence (n=19), the same prolongation of APD induced no proarrhythmia but significant antiarrhythmia (
P
<0.001). Shortening of APD, when accompanied by instability and triangulation, was also markedly proarrhythmic (primarily monomorphic ventricular tachycardia). In experiments in which instability and triangulation were present, proarrhythmia declined with prolongation of APD, but this effect was not large enough to become antiarrhythmic. Only with agents without instability did prolongation of APD become antiarrhythmic. For 20 selected compounds, it was shown that instability of APD and triangulation observed in vitro were strong predictors of in vivo proarrhythmia (torsade de pointes).
Conclusions
—Lengthening of APD without instability or triangulation is not proarrhythmic but rather antiarrhythmic.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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