Dual rate-dependent cardiac electrophysiologic effects of haloperidol: slowing of intraventricular conduction and lengthening of repolarization

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
Deddo MörtlHannes Todt

Abstract

Treatment with the neuroleptic agent haloperidol is sometimes associated with serious cardiac arrhythmias. The proarrhythmic potential of haloperidol may be linked to the drug's rate-dependent modulation of cardiac impulse conduction and repolarization. Herein these heart rate-dependent electrophysiologic actions of haloperidol are investigated in vivo. In anesthetized guinea pigs, haloperidol (0.02 mg/kg/min intravenously) produced significant rate-dependent slowing of intraventricular conduction. On abruptly changing the driving cycle length from 500 ms to 300 ms, conduction slowing rapidly reached a new steady state with a rate constant of 0.80 per beat +/- 0.07. The time course of recovery from conduction slowing on interruption of rapid pacing at a cycle length of 250 ms was well described by two time constants, tau(rec1) = 18.9 ms +/- 8.0 and tau(rec2) = 141.8 ms +/- 87.1, suggesting rapid dissociation of the drug from the Na+ channel. During prolonged stimulation, conduction slowing had a biphasic dependence on heart rate: for each 10-bpm increment in heart rate, conduction slowing increased by 7.9% at rates <220 bpm and by 17% at rates >220 bpm. At all tested cycle lengths, haloperidol caused a significant lengthening o...Continue Reading

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