Mechanisms linking electrical alternans and clinical ventricular arrhythmia in human heart failure
Mechanisms linking electrical alternans and clinical ventricular arrhythmia in human heart failure
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DOI:
10.1016/j.hrthm.2016.05.017
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发表时间:
2016-09-01
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5.5
通讯作者:
Trayanova, N. A.
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Bayer, J. D.;Lalani, G. G.;Trayanova, N. A.
BACKGROUND Mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) in patients with heart failure (HF) are undefined.OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to elucidate VT/VF mechanisms in HF by using a computational-clinical approach.METHODS In 53 patients with HF and 18 control patients, we established the relationship between low-amplitude action potential voltage alternans (APV-ALT) during ventricular pacing at near-resting heart rates and VT/VF on long-term follow-up. Mechanisms underlying the transition of APV-ALT to VT/VF, which cannot be ascertained in patients, were dissected with multiscale human ventricular models based on human electrophysiological and magnetic resonance imaging data (control and HF).RESULTS For patients with APV-ALT k-score >1.7, complex action potential duration (APD) oscillations (>= 2.3% of mean APD), rather than APD alternans, most accurately predicted VT/VF during long-term follow-up (+82%; -90% predictive values). In the failing human ventricular models, abnormal sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium handling caused APV-ALT (>1 mV) during pacing with a cycle length of 550 ms, which transitioned into large magnitude (>100 ms) discordant repolarization time alternans (RT-ALT) at faster rates. This initiated VT/VF (cycle length