Effect of atenolol on heart rate, arrhythmias, blood pressure, and dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in cats with subclinical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Source:
- Journal of veterinary cardiology 2015 v.17 pp. S296
- ISSN:
- 1760-2734
- Subject:
- arrhythmia, cardiomyopathy, cats, death, echocardiography, electrocardiography, heart rate, monitoring, systolic blood pressure, therapeutics
- Abstract:
- To investigate the negative chronotropic, antiarrhythmic, and obstruction-relieving effects of atenolol in cats with subclinical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).Seventeen cats with HCM.Results for echocardiography, electrocardiography, Doppler blood pressure, and 24 h Holter monitoring were compared in cats before and 2–4 weeks after atenolol therapy (6.25–12.5 mg PO q 12 h).The left ventricular outflow tract maximum velocity (LVOT Vmax) decreased after atenolol administration (mean Vmax pre-treatment 3.3 m/s ± 1.8 m/s; post-treatment 1.6 m/s ± 1.0 m/s, p < 0.0001). Heart rate (HR) decreased after atenolol for all HR modalities. The total number of ventricular origin complexes (TotVent) and ventricular premature complexes (VPCs) decreased after atenolol. The VPCs decreased from a geometric mean of 61 complexes/24 h (range, 11–620 complexes/24 h) to 15 complexes/24 h (range, 1–1625 complexes/24 h) (p < 0.0001). Murmur grade decreased after atenolol from a median grade of 3/6 to 2/6 (p < 0.0001). The systolic blood pressure did not change (mean pre-treatment 130 mmHg ± 16 mmHg, mean post-treatment 123 mmHg ± 20 mmHg, p = 0.2).Atenolol decreases HR, murmur grade, and LVOT obstruction, and to a lesser degree, frequency of ventricular ectopy, in cats with subclinical HCM. Further studies are needed to determine if sudden cardiac death or long-term outcome is influenced by atenolol administration.
- Agid:
- 5337774
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvc.2015.03.002