title: Cardiovascular profile of the canine torsades de pointes arrhythmia model assessed by echocardiographic and haemodynamic methods.
abstract: Chronic atrioventricular block dogs have been established as an in vivo model of drug-induced torsades de pointes arrhythmias. We compared the cardiovascular profile of the canine model with that of sham-operated animals using echocardiographic and haemodynamic methods. In the echocardiographic study, the larger diameters of the left atria, inferior vena cava and left ventricle in end-diastole in addition to greater fractional shortening, end-diastolic volume, stroke volume and ejection fraction were more often detected in the chronic atrioventricular block dogs than in the sham-operated animals. During haemodynamic examination, lower cardiac output and higher pulmonary capillary wedge pressure were detected in chronic atrioventricular block dogs more than in sham-operated animals; however, these changes were within the physiological limits, and the results suggest that the chronic atrioventricular block dogs have a pathophysiological profile of chronic compensated heart failure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan.
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takahara
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sugiyama
authors.forename: Yoshioki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Satoh
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwasaki
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Keitaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002302:Cardiac Output; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004285:Dogs; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006327:Heart Block / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006339:Heart Rate; D008297:Male; D013318:Stroke Volume; D016171:Torsades de Pointes / Q000503:physiopathology*