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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 249: H1045-H1050, 1985;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 249, Issue 5 1045-H1050, Copyright © 1985 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of sympathetic tone on ventricular arrhythmias during circumflex coronary occlusion

D. E. Euler, S. Nattel, J. F. Spear, E. N. Moore and P. J. Scanlon

To determine if the sympathetic nervous system exerts an arrhythmogenic effect on the ischemic myocardium independent of heart rate, the proximal circumflex coronary artery was occluded for 1 h in 62 open-chest, anesthetized dogs. The atrial rate was maintained at 200/min, and the vagosympathetic trunks were transected in all dogs. The total incidence of ventricular fibrillation was 35% in 20 dogs with intact stellates and not significantly different from the incidence of ventricular fibrillation (15%) in another 20 dogs in which both stellate ganglia had been decentralized. Electrical stimulation of the left ansae subclavia (3 Hz, 2 ms, 6-8 V) in the remaining 22 dogs significantly increased the incidence of ventricular fibrillation to 73% (P less than 0.05). The magnitude of S-T segment elevation in the lead II electrocardiogram 90 s after occlusion was 0.69 +/- 0.08 mV in the group with left ansae stimulation and significantly elevated (P less than 0.01) compared with dogs with intact stellates (0.35 +/- 0.06 mV) and with the denervated dogs (0.19 +/- 0.05 mV). The data indicate that the sympathetic nervous system is capable of a direct arrhythmogenic influence on the ischemic myocardium independent of heart rate. The rate-independent arrhythmogenic effects of the sympathetic nervous system may be mediated by an increase in severity of the ischemic insult.


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