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Published on: May 22, 2018
Suprastin (Chloropyramine) Causes Proarrhythmic Deterioration of Excitation Conduction, Depolarization and
Yu V Egorov1, T S Filatova2, A A Abramov2
1E. I. Chazov National Medical Research Center of Cardiology, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia. knowledge_spirit@mail.ru.
Abstract:
A number of pharmacological drugs have side effects that contribute to the occurrence of atrial fibrillation, the most common type of cardiac rhythm disorders. The clinical use of antihistamines is widespread; however, information regarding their anti- and/or proarrhythmic effects is contradictory. In this work, we studied the effects and mechanisms of the potential proarrhythmic action of the first-generation antihistamine chloropyramine (Suprastin) in the atrial myocardium and pulmonary vein (PV) myocardial tissue. In PV, chloropyramine caused depolarization of the resting potential and led to reduction of excitation wave conduction. These effects are likely due to suppression of the inward rectifier potassium current (IK1). In presence of epinephrine, chloropyramine induced spontaneous automaticity in the PV and could not be suppressed by atrial pacing. Chloropyramine change functional characteristics of PV and contribute to occurrence of atrial fibrillation. It should be noted that chloropyramine does not provoke atrial tachyarrhythmias, but create conditions for their occurrence during physical exercise and sympathetic stimulation.
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