Alex Y Tan1, Khalid Elharrif2, Ricardo Cardona-Guarache2, Pranav Mankad2, Owen Ayers3, Martha Joslyn3, Anindita Das4, Karoly Kaszala2, Shien-Fong Lin5, Kenneth A Ellenbogen2, Anthony J Minisi2, Jose F Huizar2. 1. Pauley Heart Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; Electrophysiology Section, Division of Cardiology, Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia. Electronic address: alex.tan@va.gov. 2. Pauley Heart Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; Electrophysiology Section, Division of Cardiology, Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia. 3. Electrophysiology Section, Division of Cardiology, Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia. 4. Pauley Heart Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. 5. Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The presence and significance of neural remodeling in premature ventricular contraction-induced cardiomyopathy (PVC-CM) remain unknown. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to characterize cardiac sympathovagal balance and proarrhythmia in a canine model of PVC-CM. METHODS: In 12 canines, the investigators implanted epicardial pacemakers and radiotelemetry units to record cardiac rhythm and nerve activity (NA) from the left stellate ganglion (SNA), left cardiac vagus (VNA), and arterial blood pressure. Bigeminal PVCs (200 ms coupling) were applied for 12 weeks to induce PVC-CM in 7 animals then disabled for 4 weeks to allow complete recovery of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), versus 5 sham controls. RESULTS: After 12 weeks of PVCs, LVEF (p = 0.006) and dP/dT (p = 0.007) decreased. Resting SNA (p = 0.002) and VNA (p = 0.04), exercise SNA (p = 0.01), SNA response to evoked PVCs (p = 0.005), heart rate (HR) at rest (p = 0.003), and exercise (p < 0.04) increased, whereas HR variability (HRV) decreased (p = 0.009). There was increased spontaneous atrial (p = 0.02) and ventricular arrhythmias (p = 0.03) in PVC-CM. Increased SNA preceded both atrial (p = 0.0003) and ventricular (p = 0.009) arrhythmia onset. Clonidine suppressed SNA and abolished all arrhythmias. After disabling PVC for 4 weeks, LVEF (p = 0.01), dP/dT (p = 0.047), and resting VNA (p = 0.03) recovered to baseline levels. However, SNA, resting HR, HRV, and atrial (p = 0.03) and ventricular (p = 0.03) proarrhythmia persisted. There was sympathetic hyperinnervation in stellate ganglia (p = 0.02) but not ventricles (p = 0.2) of PVC-CM and recovered animals versus sham controls. CONCLUSIONS: Neural remodeling in PVC-CM is characterized by extracardiac sympathetic hyperinnervation and sympathetic neural hyperactivity that persists despite normalization of LVEF. The altered cardiac sympathovagal balance is an important trigger and substrate for atrial and ventricular proarrhythmia. Published by Elsevier Inc.
BACKGROUND: The presence and significance of neural remodeling in premature ventricular contraction-induced cardiomyopathy (PVC-CM) remain unknown. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to characterize cardiac sympathovagal balance and proarrhythmia in a canine model of PVC-CM. METHODS: In 12 canines, the investigators implanted epicardial pacemakers and radiotelemetry units to record cardiac rhythm and nerve activity (NA) from the left stellate ganglion (SNA), left cardiac vagus (VNA), and arterial blood pressure. Bigeminal PVCs (200 ms coupling) were applied for 12 weeks to induce PVC-CM in 7 animals then disabled for 4 weeks to allow complete recovery of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), versus 5 sham controls. RESULTS: After 12 weeks of PVCs, LVEF (p = 0.006) and dP/dT (p = 0.007) decreased. Resting SNA (p = 0.002) and VNA (p = 0.04), exercise SNA (p = 0.01), SNA response to evoked PVCs (p = 0.005), heart rate (HR) at rest (p = 0.003), and exercise (p < 0.04) increased, whereas HR variability (HRV) decreased (p = 0.009). There was increased spontaneous atrial (p = 0.02) and ventricular arrhythmias (p = 0.03) in PVC-CM. Increased SNA preceded both atrial (p = 0.0003) and ventricular (p = 0.009) arrhythmia onset. Clonidine suppressed SNA and abolished all arrhythmias. After disabling PVC for 4 weeks, LVEF (p = 0.01), dP/dT (p = 0.047), and resting VNA (p = 0.03) recovered to baseline levels. However, SNA, resting HR, HRV, and atrial (p = 0.03) and ventricular (p = 0.03) proarrhythmia persisted. There was sympathetic hyperinnervation in stellate ganglia (p = 0.02) but not ventricles (p = 0.2) of PVC-CM and recovered animals versus sham controls. CONCLUSIONS: Neural remodeling in PVC-CM is characterized by extracardiac sympathetic hyperinnervation and sympathetic neural hyperactivity that persists despite normalization of LVEF. The altered cardiac sympathovagal balance is an important trigger and substrate for atrial and ventricular proarrhythmia. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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