• J. Cardiovasc. Pharmacol. · Mar 1996

    Antiarrhythmic effects of optical isomers of disopyramide on canine ventricular arrhythmias.

    • M Nakamura, Y Xue, K Eto, and K Hashimoto.
    • Department of Pharmacology, Yamanashi Medical University, Japan.
    • J. Cardiovasc. Pharmacol. 1996 Mar 1; 27 (3): 368-75.

    AbstractDisopyramide is an effective class I antiarrhythmic drug and widely used for the treatment of arrhythmias, but it has anticholinergic side effects. In vitro studies demonstrated that dextrorotatory (D-) disopyramide has a stronger anticholinergic action, whereas the levorotatory (L-) isomer has a stronger Na channel blocking action. Because the antiarrhythmic mechanism of disopyramide suppressing digitalis- and two-stage coronary ligation-induced canine ventricular arrhythmias is the drug-induced Na channel block, we examined the antiarrhythmic efficacy of D- and L-disopyramide on two arrhythmia models. On ouabain-induced ventricular tachycardia (VT), L-disopyramide 3 mg/kg decreased the arrhythmic ratio (number of ectopic beats/total heart rate), whereas the same dose of the D-isomer was ineffective and a higher dose (5 mg/kg) was needed to suppress the arrhythmia. The effective plasma concentrations (IC50) decreasing the arrhythmic ratio to 50% of the control were 5.3 and 11.3 mu g/ml for L- and D-disopyramide, respectively. We obtained similar results using 24-h two-stage coronary ligation VT. The IC50 were 8.9 and 22.2 mu g/ml for the L- and D-isomers, respectively. Our results indicate that L-disopyramide is about twice as strong an antiarrhythmic drug as the D-isomer.

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