Copyright © 1999 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Effects of KATPchannel blockade by glibenclamide on the warm-up phenomenon
a Divisione di Cardiochirurgia, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, European Hospital, Rome, Italy
b Divisione di Cardiologia, Ospedale S. Giuseppe Albano, Rome, Italy
c Istituto di Cardiologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
accepted September 2, 1998
Abstract
Aims
The increased tolerance to myocardial ischaemia observed during the second of two sequential exercise tests, i.e. the warm-up phenomenon, has been proposed as a clinical model of ischaemic preconditioning. As ATP-sensitive K+channels appear to be a mediator of ischaemic preconditioning in both experimental and clinical studies, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of KATPchannels in the warm-up phenomenon.
Methods and Results
Twenty-six patients with coronary artery disease were randomized to receive 10mg oral glibenclamide, a selective ATP-sensitive K+channel blocker, or placebo. Sixty minutes after glibenclamide or placebo administration, patients were given an infusion of 10% dextrose (8ml.min–1) to correct glucose plasma levels or, respectively, an infusion of saline at the same infusion rate. Thirty minutes after the beginning of the infusions, both patient groups underwent two consecutive treadmill exercise tests, with a recovery period of 15min to re-establish baseline conditions. Before exercise tests, blood glucose levels were similar in placebo and glibenclamide groups (96±10 vs 105±22mg.100ml–1,P=ns). After placebo administration, rate-pressure product at 1·5mm ST-segment depression significantly increased during the second exercise test compared to the first (220±41 vs 186±29 beats.min–1.mmHg.102,P<0·01), but it did not change after glibenclamide (191±34 vs 187±42 beats.min–1.mmHg.102,P=ns), with a significant drug-test interaction (P=0·0091, at two-way ANOVA).
Conclusions
Glibenclamide, at a dose previously shown to abolish ischaemic preconditioning during coronary angioplasty, prevents the increase of ischaemic threshold observed during the second of two sequential exercise tests. These findings confirm that ischaemic preconditioning plays a key role in the warm-up phenomenon and that in this setting is, at least partially, mediated by activation of ATP-sensitive K+channels.
Key Words: Glibenclamide • ischaemic preconditioning • KATPchannel • warm-up phenomenon
f1 Correspondence:Dr Fabrizio Tomai, Divisione di Cardiochirurgia, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, European Hospital, via Portuense 700, 00149 Rome, Italy.
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