期刊
HEART RHYTHM O2
卷 2, 期 4, 页码 394-404出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.hroo.2021.06.008
关键词
Alternans; Action potential; Arrhythmias; Azithromycin; COVID-19; Cardiotoxic drugs; CiPA; Hydroxychloroquine; Optical mapping
资金
- NIH [1R01HL143450-01]
- National Science Foundation [1446675, CNS-2028677]
- National Science Foundation Physics of Living Systems [1806833]
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Division Of Computer and Network Systems [1446675] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1806833] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The study found that HCQ alone or in combination with AZM can lead to long QT intervals, prolong the duration of action potential in the heart, and increase spatial dispersion of action potential repolarization, resulting in proarrhythmic discordant alternans. AZM alone has a lesser arrhythmic effect with less triangulation of the action potential shape. Mathematical cardiac models failed to reproduce most of the arrhythmic effects observed in experiments.
BACKGROUND In March 2020, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) alone or combined with azithromycin (AZM) was authorized as a treatment for COVID-19 in many countries. The therapy proved ineffective with long QT and deadly cardiac arrhythmia risks, illustrating challenges to determine the new safety profile of repurposed drugs. OBJECTIVE To investigate proarrhythmic effects and mechanism of HCQ and AZM (combined and alone) with high doses of HCQ as in the COVID-19 clinical trials. METHODS Proarrhythmic effects of HCQ and AZM are quantified using optical mapping with voltage-sensitive dyes in ex vivo Langendorff-perfused guinea pig (GP) hearts and with numerical simulations of a GP Luo-Rudy and a human O'Hara-Virag-VarroRudy models, for Epi, Endo, and M cells, in cell and tissue, incorporating the drug's effect on cell membrane ionic currents. RESULTS Experimentally, HCQ alone and combined with AZM leads to long QT intervals by prolonging the action potential duration and increased spatial dispersion of action potential (AP) repolarization across the heart, leading to proarrhythmic discordant alternans. AZM alone had a lesser arrhythmic effect with less triangulation of the AP shape. Mathematical cardiac models fail to reproduce most of the arrhythmic effects observed experimentally. CONCLUSIONS During public health crises, the risks and benefits of new and repurposed drugs could be better assessed with alternative experimental and computational approaches to identify proarrhythmic mechanisms. Optical mapping is an effective framework suitable to investigate the drug's adverse effects on cardiac cell membrane ionic channels at the cellular level and arrhythmia mechanisms at the tissue and whole-organ level.
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