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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 281, Issue 5, Pages H1968-H1975Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.2001.281.5.H1968
Keywords
action potential; ventricular tachycardia; epicardium; endocardium
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The effects of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) on the generation of phase 2 early afterdepolarization (EAD) and transmural dispersion of repolarization (TDR) were assessed using arterially perfused rabbit ventricular wedge preparations. Transmembrane action potentials from epicardium, subendocardium, and endocardium were simultaneously recorded together with a transmural ECG. Transmural action potential duration (APD) was also mapped. LVH (renovascular hypertension model) produced significant prolongation in ventricular APD and QT interval. Preferential APD prolongation in subendocardium and endocardium was associated with a marked increase in TDR. Phase 2 EADs were generated from subendocardium or endocardium in all LVH rabbits (15 of 15) in the absence of APD prolonging agents at basic cycle lengths of 2,000-4,000 ms. Phase 2 EAD could produce R on T extrasystoles, initiating polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT). This study provides the first direct evidence from intracellular recordings that phase 2 EAD could be generated from rabbit intact hypertrophied LV wall in the absence of APD prolonging agents, resulting in R on T extrasystoles capable of initiating polymorphic VT under enhanced TDR.
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