Modernized classification of cardiac antiarrhythmic drugs

M Lei, L Wu, DA Terrar, CLH Huang - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Among his major cardiac electrophysiological contributions, Miles Vaughan
Williams (1918–2016) provided a classification of antiarrhythmic drugs that remains central …

Murine electrophysiological models of cardiac arrhythmogenesis

CLH Huang - Physiological reviews, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Cardiac arrhythmias can follow disruption of the normal cellular electrophysiological
processes underlying excitable activity and their tissue propagation as coherent wavefronts …

Ageing, the autonomic nervous system and arrhythmia: from brain to heart

KR Chadda, OA Ajijola, M Vaseghi, K Shivkumar… - Ageing research …, 2018 - Elsevier
An ageing myocardium possesses significant electrophysiological alterations that
predisposes the elderly patient to arrhythmic risk. Whilst these alterations are intrinsic to the …

Multiple targets for flecainide action: implications for cardiac arrhythmogenesis

SC Salvage, KH Chandrasekharan… - British journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Flecainide suppresses cardiac tachyarrhythmias including paroxysmal atrial fibrillation,
supraventricular tachycardia and arrhythmic long QT syndromes (LQTS), as well as the …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiac disease and arrhythmogenesis: Mechanistic insights from mouse models

L Choy, JM Yeo, V Tse, SP Chan, G Tse - IJC heart & vasculature, 2016 - Elsevier
The mouse is the second mammalian species, after the human, in which substantial amount
of the genomic information has been analyzed. With advances in transgenic technology …

Brugada syndrome: more than a monogenic channelopathy

A Liantonio, M Bertini, A Mele, C Balla, G Dinoi… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Brugada syndrome (BrS) is an inherited cardiac channelopathy first diagnosed in 1992 but
still considered a challenging disease in terms of diagnosis, arrhythmia risk prediction …

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: implications for cardiac safety

K Jeevaratnam - European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The recent COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for rapid responses in developing
treatment strategies for new and emerging diseases. The option to repurpose drugs …

Cardiac arrhythmogenesis: roles of ion channels and their functional modification

M Lei, SC Salvage, AP Jackson, CLH Huang - Frontiers in Physiology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cardiac arrhythmias cause significant morbidity and mortality and pose a major public
health problem. They arise from disruptions in the normally orderly propagation of cardiac …

Update on antiarrhythmic drug pharmacology

CLH Huang, L Wu, K Jeevaratnam… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiac arrhythmias constitute a major public health problem. Pharmacological intervention
remains mainstay to their clinical management. This, in turn, depends upon systematic drug …

Depolarization vs. repolarization: what is the mechanism of ventricular arrhythmogenesis underlying sodium channel haploinsufficiency in mouse hearts?

G Tse, ST Wong, V Tse, JM Yeo - Acta Physiologica, 2016 - search.ebscohost.com
A letter to the editor in response to the article" Depolarization vs. repolarization: what is the
mechanism of ventricular arrhythmogenesis underlying sodium channel haploinsufficiency …