Background: Torsade de pointes is a potentially lethal polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmia that can occur in the setting of long QT syndrome (LQTS). LQTS is multi-hit in nature and multiple factors combine their effects leading to increased arrhythmic risk. While hypokalemia and multiple medications are accounted for in LQTS, the arrhythmogenic role of systemic inflammation is increasingly recognized but often overlooked. We tested the hypothesis that the inflammatory cytokine interleukin(IL)-6 will significantly increase the incidence of arrhythmia when combined with other pro-arrhythmic conditions (hypokalemia and the psychotropic medication, quetiapine).
Methods: Guinea pigs were injected intraperitoneally with IL-6/soluble IL-6 receptor and QT changes were measured in vivo. Subsequently, hearts were cannulated via Langendorff perfusion for ex vivo optical mapping measurements of action potential duration (APD) and arrhythmia inducibility. Computer simulations (MATLAB) were performed to investigate I inhibition at varying IL-6 and quetiapine concentrations.
Results: IL-6 prolonged QTc in vivo guinea pigs from 306.74 ± 7.19 ms to 332.60 ± 8.75 ms (n = 8, p = .0021). Optical mapping on isolated hearts demonstrated APD prolongation in IL-6- vs saline groups (3Hz APD:179.67 ± 2.47 ms vs 153.5 ± 7.86 ms, p = .0357). When hypokalemia was introduced, the APD increased to 195.8 ± 5.02 ms[IL-6] and 174.57 ± 10.7 ms[saline] (p = .2797), and when quetiapine was added to hypokalemia to 207.67 ± 3.03 ms[IL-6] and 191.37 ± 9.49 ms[saline] (p = .2449). After the addition of hypokalemia ± quetiapine, arrhythmia was induced in 75% of IL-6-treated hearts (n = 8), while in none of the control hearts (n = 6). Computer simulations demonstrated spontaneous depolarizations at ∼83% aggregate I inhibition.
Conclusions: Our experimental observations strongly suggest that controlling inflammation, specifically IL-6, could be a viable and important route for reducing QT prolongation and arrhythmia incidence in the clinical setting.
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