HEART RATE REDUCTION IMPROVES BIVENTRICULAR FUNCTION AND INTERACTIONS IN EXPERIMENTAL PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
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Abstract
The objective of the present study was to investigate mechanisms of heart rate (HR) reduction on biventricular function and interactions in experimental pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We compared cardiac cycle mechanics and interventricular interactions in 15 sham, 8 monocrotaline-PAH, 9 PAH + carvedilol, and 8 PAH + ivabradine rats. We used echocardiography to assess biventricular function, timing of cardiac cycle events, and septal position in PAH rats and related HR reduction effects on biventricular function measured by echocardiography and conductance catheter. HR was 302 beats/min in PAH + carvedilol rats and 303 beats/min in PAH + ivabradine rats versus 359 beats/min in PAH rats ( P < 0.01). Sham rats showed temporal alignment between right ventricular (RV) and left ventricular (LV) events, whereas PAH rats showed increased biventricular isovolumic contraction times (ICTs), delayed RV peak radial motion, and impaired early relaxation. Temporal malalignment was associated with decreased tricuspid and mitral diastolic annular peak velocities (3.7 vs. 6.4 and 3.4 vs. 5.3 cm/s, respectively, P < 0.001), delayed and shortened biventricular filling, and reduced early diastolic LV filling velocity (0.56 vs. 0.81 cm/s, P < 0.01). LV eccentricity index was increased at systole (2.0 vs. 1.2, P < 0.001), early diastole (2.1 vs. 1.1, P < 0.001), and end diastole (1.6 vs. 1.1, P < 0.001) in PAH versus sham rats. HR reduction with carvedilol and ivabradine shortened biventricular ICTs and the time to biventricular peak radial motion, improved RV relaxation, and increased early diastolic LV filling through reduced interventricular interaction and improved timing. These improvements corresponded with enhanced hemodynamics (increased cardiac output, RV contractility, and diastolic relaxation). In conclusion, HR reduction by carvedilol and ivabradine improves biventricular filling and hemodynamics in experimental PAH through realignment of RV-LV cardiac cycle events and improved interventricular interactions. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Carvedilol improves biventricular function in experimental pulmonary arterial hypertension, but the mechanisms of heart rate reduction versus β-blocker effect are inadequately defined. Here, we demonstrate that reducing heart rate using either carvedilol or ivabradine (hyperpolarization-activated current inhibitor without β-blocker effect) improves right ventricular filling and biventricular hemodynamics through the realignment of right ventricular-left ventricular cardiac cycle events and improved interventricular interactions.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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