ArticleCirculation. Heart failure2014
Ranolazine effectively suppresses atrial fibrillation in the setting of heart failure.
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- Unraveling the pharmacological and therapeutic potential of Ranolazine beyond antianginal drug use: a new insight.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2025Review
- Effect of Flecainide and Ibutilide Alone and in Combination to Terminate and Prevent Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation.Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology · 2024Article
- Advances in basic and translational research in atrial fibrillation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Arrhythmogenic and antiarrhythmic actions of late sustained sodium current in the adult human heart.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Role of Ranolazine in the Prevention and Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Investigational Anti-Atrial Fibrillation Pharmacology and Mechanisms by Which Antiarrhythmics Terminate the Arrhythmia: Where Are We in 2020?Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology · 2020Review
- Late Sodium Current Inhibitors as Potential Antiarrhythmic Agents.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2020Review
- Mechanisms by Which Ranolazine Terminates Paroxysmal but Not Persistent Atrial Fibrillation.Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology · 2019Article
- Computational modeling: What does it tell us about atrial fibrillation therapy?International journal of cardiology · 2019Review
- CaHeart rhythm · 2018Review
- Impact of ranolazine on ventricular arrhythmias - A systematic review.Journal of arrhythmia · 2018Review
- Distinct Occurrence of Proarrhythmic Afterdepolarizations in Atrial Versus Ventricular Cardiomyocytes: Implications for Translational Research on Atrial Arrhythmia.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2018Article
- Anti-arrhythmic strategies for atrial fibrillation: The role of computational modeling in discovery, development, and optimization.Pharmacology & therapeutics · 2016Review
- Atrial-selective targeting of arrhythmogenic phase-3 early afterdepolarizations in human myocytes.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology · 2016Article
- Atrial Electrophysiological Remodeling and Fibrillation in Heart Failure.Clinical Medicine Insights. Cardiology · 2016Review
- Regional variation of the inwardly rectifying potassium current in the canine heart and the contributions to differences in action potential repolarization.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology · 2015Article
- Short-course of ranolazine prevents postoperative atrial fibrillation following coronary artery bypass grafting and valve surgeries.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2015Article
- Ranolazine: Multifaceted Role beyond Coronary Artery Disease, a Recent Perspective.Heart views : the official journal of the Gulf Heart AssociationReview
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- Erratum issuedCorrection.2015 · Zygmunt, Andy [removed]
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Abstract
backgroundThere is a critical need for safer and more effective pharmacological management of atrial fibrillation (AF) in the setting of heart failure (HF). METHODS AND
resultsThis study investigates the electrophysiological, antiarrhythmic, and proarrhythmic effects of a clinically relevant concentration of ranolazine (5 μmol/L) in coronary-perfused right atrial and left ventricular preparations isolated from the hearts of HF dogs. HF was induced by ventricular tachypacing (2-6 weeks at 200-240 beats per minute; n=17). Transmembrane action potentials were recorded using standard microelectrode techniques. In atria, ranolazine slightly prolonged action potential duration but significantly depressed sodium channel current-dependent parameters causing a reduction of maximum rate of rise of the action potential upstroke, a prolongation of the effective refractory period secondary to the development of postrepolarization refractoriness, and an increase in diastolic threshold of excitation and atrial conduction time. Ranolazine did not significantly alter these parameters or promote arrhythmias in the ventricles. Ranolazine produced greater inhibition of peak sodium channel current in atrial cells isolated from HF versus normal dogs. A single premature beat reproducibly induced self-terminating AF in 10 of 17 atria. Ranolazine (5 μmol/L) suppressed induction of AF in 7 of 10 (70%) atria. In the remaining 3 atria, ranolazine reduced frequency and duration of AF.
conclusionsOur results demonstrate more potent suppression of AF by ranolazine in the setting of HF than previously demonstrated in nonfailing hearts and absence of ventricular proarrhythmia. The data suggest that ranolazine may be of benefit as an alternative to amiodarone and dofetilide in the management of AF in patients with HF.
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