Abstract
Heart Failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) has a high rate of sudden cardiac death (SCD) and empirical treatment is ineffective. We developed a novel preclinical model of metabolic HFpEF that presents with stress-induced ventricular tachycardia (VT). Mechanistically, we discovered arrhythmogenic changes in intracellular Ca2+ handling distinct from the changes pathognomonic for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. We further show that dantrolene, a stabilizer of the ryanodine receptor Ca2+ channel, attenuates HFpEF-associated arrhythmogenic Ca2+ handling in vitro and suppresses stress-induced VT in vivo. We propose ryanodine receptor stabilization as a mechanistic approach to mitigation of malignant VT in metabolic HFpEF.
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