BACKGROUND: Alternans in action potential voltage (APV-ALT) at heart rates <110 bpm is a novel index to predict ventricular arrhythmias. However, the rate dependency of APV-ALT and its mechanisms in failing versus nonfailing human myocardium are poorly understood. It is hypothesized that APV-ALT in human heart failure (HF) reflects abnormal calcium handling. OBJECTIVE: Using a modeling and clinical approach, our objectives were to (1) determine how APV-ALT varies with pacing rate and (2) ascertain whether abnormalities in calcium handling explain the rate dependence of APV-ALT in HF. METHODS: APV-ALT was analyzed at several cycle lengths (CLs) using a dynamic pacing protocol applied to a human left ventricle wedge model with various alterations in calcium handling. Modeled APV-ALT was used to predict APV-ALT in left ventricle monophasic action potentials recorded from HF (n = 3) and control (n = 2) patients with the same pacing protocol. RESULTS: Reducing the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium uptake current < or =25%, the release current < or =11%, or the sarcolemmal L-type calcium channel current < or =43% of control predicted APV-ALT to arise at CL > or =600 ms and then increase in magnitude by >400% for CL <400 ms. In HF patients, APV-ALT arose at CL = 600 ms and then increased in magnitude by >500% at CL <350 ms. For all other model alterations and for control patients, APV-ALT occurred only at CL <500 ms. CONCLUSIONS: APV-ALT shows differing rate dependence in HF versus control patients, arising at slower rates in HF and predicted by models with abnormal calcium handling. Future studies should investigate whether APV-ALT at slow rates identifies patients with deranged calcium handing, including HF patients before decompensation or at risk for arrhythmias. Copyright 2010 Heart Rhythm Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
BACKGROUND: Alternans in action potential voltage (APV-ALT) at heart rates <110 bpm is a novel index to predict ventricular arrhythmias. However, the rate dependency of APV-ALT and its mechanisms in failing versus nonfailing human myocardium are poorly understood. It is hypothesized that APV-ALT in humanheart failure (HF) reflects abnormal calcium handling. OBJECTIVE: Using a modeling and clinical approach, our objectives were to (1) determine how APV-ALT varies with pacing rate and (2) ascertain whether abnormalities in calcium handling explain the rate dependence of APV-ALT in HF. METHODS:APV-ALT was analyzed at several cycle lengths (CLs) using a dynamic pacing protocol applied to a human left ventricle wedge model with various alterations in calcium handling. Modeled APV-ALT was used to predict APV-ALT in left ventricle monophasic action potentials recorded from HF (n = 3) and control (n = 2) patients with the same pacing protocol. RESULTS: Reducing the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium uptake current < or =25%, the release current < or =11%, or the sarcolemmal L-type calcium channel current < or =43% of control predicted APV-ALT to arise at CL > or =600 ms and then increase in magnitude by >400% for CL <400 ms. In HF patients, APV-ALT arose at CL = 600 ms and then increased in magnitude by >500% at CL <350 ms. For all other model alterations and for control patients, APV-ALT occurred only at CL <500 ms. CONCLUSIONS:APV-ALT shows differing rate dependence in HF versus control patients, arising at slower rates in HF and predicted by models with abnormal calcium handling. Future studies should investigate whether APV-ALT at slow rates identifies patients with deranged calcium handing, including HF patients before decompensation or at risk for arrhythmias. Copyright 2010 Heart Rhythm Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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