PMID: 11341085May 9, 2001Paper

Spontaneous, electrically, and cesium chloride induced arrhythmia and afterdepolarizations in the rapidly paced dog heart

Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology : PACE
D L JonesH G Li

Abstract

Despite frequent arrhythmia and sudden death in heart failure, attempts to study arrhythmia mechanisms in patients are difficult. The dog heart, paced for several weeks at a fast rate to induce heart failure is prone to arrhythmia. The aim of this study was to determine the activation patterns of spontaneous and electrically induced arrhythmia and the susceptibility of the failing dog heart to arrhythmia and early afterdepolarization (EAD) induced triggered activity elicited by exogenous administration of cesium chloride (CsCl). The hearts of 56 mongrel dogs were paced at 240 beats/min for 3-5 weeks (heart failure group). Twenty-one similarly operated, but not paced dogs served as the control group. At baseline, all dogs were healthy as assessed electrophysiologically and hemodynamically. Spontaneous (bradycardia, tachycardia, and arrhythmic deaths) and electrically induced arrhythmia was frequent in dogs with heart failure. Also, the minimal dose of CsCl that produced ventricular tachycardia was significantly lower in the heart failure than the control dogs (1.02 +/- 0.02 vs 1.21 +/- 0.07 mMol/kg, P < 0.05). Epicardial mapping during spontaneous and electrically induced arrhythmia in the heart failure dogs showed initiation pa...Continue Reading

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