Effect of Lidocaine and Amiodarone on Transmural Heterogeneityricular Repolarization in Isolated Rabbit Hearts Model of Sustained Global Ischemia
- Author:
Binquan YOU
1
;
Jun PU
;
Nian LIU
;
Ronghui YU
;
Yanfei RUAN
;
Yang LI
;
Lin WANG
Author Information
1. Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Keywords:
lidocaine;
amiodarone;
ischemia;
repolarization heterogeneity;
midmyocardial cells;
transmural dispersion of repolarization
- From:
Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Medical Sciences)
2005;25(4):400-403
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
To study the effect of of lidocaine and amiodarone on the transmural heterogeneity of ventricular repolarization in isolated rabbit hearts model of sustained global ischemia and to explore the mechanisms underlying the antiarrhythmic activity of lidocaine and amiodarone, rabbits were randomly divided into 4 groups: control group, ischemia group, lidocaine group and amiodarone group. By the monophasic action potential (MAP) recording technique, MAPs of recorded across the left ventricular free wall in rabbit hearts perfused transmural dispersion of repolarization (TDR) and arrhythmic induced by ischemia. Our results showed that TDR of three myocardial layers in ischemia group were significantly lengthened after ischemia. TDR was increased from 17.5±3.9 ms to 31.2±4.6 ms at the time that concided with the onset of sustained ventricle arrhythmic. Amiodarone could decrease TDR, but lidocaine could increase TDR at initial ischemia, and no significant difference was found at other ischemia time points. 5 cases had ventriclar arrhythmia in ischemia group (62.5 %), but no case in lidocaine group (P<0.01) and only 1 case in amiodarone group had ventrilar arrhythmia (P< 0.01). No significant difference was found between amiodarone group and lidocaine group. It is concluded that TDR of of three myocardial layers increases significantly at ischemia and it is closely associated with development of ventricular arrhythmia, and amiodarone could decrease TDR, but lidocaine could increase TDR at initial ischemia and has no effects at other ischemia time points.
