PHARMACOLOGICAL MODULATION OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS-SYSTEM IN THE PREVENTION OF SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH - A STUDY WITH PROPRANOLOL, METHACHOLINE AND OXOTREMORINE IN CONSCIOUS DOGS WITH A HEALED MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION
PHARMACOLOGICAL MODULATION OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS-SYSTEM IN THE PREVENTION OF SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH - A STUDY WITH PROPRANOLOL, METHACHOLINE AND OXOTREMORINE IN CONSCIOUS DOGS WITH A HEALED MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION
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DOI:
10.1016/0735-1097(93)90845-r
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发表时间:
1993-07-01
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24
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SCHWARTZ, PJ
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作者:
DEFERRARI, GM;SALVATI, P;SCHWARTZ, PJ
Objectives. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the antifibrillatory and hemodynamic effects of pharmacologic muscarinic activation and to compare them with those of betaadrenergic blockade.Background. Recent studies suggest a correlation between increased vagal activity and a reduced incidence of sudden cardiac death. Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve reduces the incidence of ventricular fibrillation in a conscious animal model of sudden cardiac death.Methods. Eleven dogs with healed anterior myocardial infarction, in which a 2-min left circumflex coronary artery occlusion during exercise caused ventricular fibrillation, were studied. They underwent subsequent tests with saline solution, propranolol (1 mg/kg body weight), methacholine (0.5 mug/kg per min) and oxotremorine (8 mug/kg).Results. In the test with saline solution, 100% of the dogs developed ventricular fibrillation; this occurred in only 10% of the tests with propranolol (95% confidence interval 0.2% to 44%; p < 0.001), 60% of the tests with methacholine (95% confidence interval 26% to 88%, p = 0.05) and 37.5% of the tests with oxotremorine (95% confidence interval 8% to 75%, p = 0.005). Propranolol and oxotremorine significantly reduced heart rate compared with saline solution, whereas methacholine did not. Propranolol significantly reduced maximal first derivative of left ventricular pressure, (dP/dt(max)), particularly during myocardial ischemia, compared with the other treatments (2,391 +/- 582 mm Hg/s [mean +/- 1 SD] with propranolol vs. 4,226 +/- 1,237, 4,922 +/- 584 and 4,358 +/- 1,109 mm Hg/s with saline solution, methacholine and oxotremorine, respectively, p < 0.005).Conclusions. Propranoiol was extremely effective against ventricular fibrillation. Methacholine and oxotremorine provided a significant, although less marked, protection and caused much less impairment of contractility compared with propranolol. Muscarinic receptor activation may represent a new approach to prevention of sudden cardiac death, particularly when beta-blockers are contraindicated and negative inotropic effects are to be avoided.