Abstract
In anaesthetized rabbits, alpha(1)-adrenoceptor stimulation increases the propensity of repolarization-prolonging drugs to induce torsade de pointes ventricular tachycardia. However, it is not known whether the stimulation of intracardiac alpha(1)-adrenoceptors, or the increased ventricular stretch caused by extracardiac alpha(1)-adrenoceptor-mediated peripheral vasoconstriction and increased resistance, are the sensitizing factors. Accordingly, this study investigated whether a sustained load-induced left ventricular stretch or stimulation of the intracardiac alpha(1)-adrenoceptors with 100 nM methoxamine, or the co-application of these two, can assist dofetilide (100 nM) to elicit torsade de pointes in isolated Langendorff-perfused, rabbit hearts. In the stretched hearts, a constant high level of stretch was produced by a water-filled left ventricular balloon inflated to a volume of 1.4 ml, whereby the systolic and end-diastolic pressures virtually did not exceed the physiological range (<or=157+/-11 mm Hg and <or=9+/-2 mm Hg, respectively; mean+/-S.E.M.). Perfusion with dofetilide prolonged the QT interval significantly and indifferently in all hearts. Neither this stretch nor methoxamine nor the in combination affected the ...Continue Reading
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