Digital twin of the heart helps to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias

Medical Xpress March 31, 2025
Technical University of Valencia

Millions of people around the world live with cardiac arrhythmias. Only in Spain, it is estimated that more than one million citizens suffer from them. Detecting and treating them accurately continues to be one of the great challenges of cardiovascular medicine.

Now, a team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), belonging to the COR-ITACA group, has launched a new noninvasive method to locate the origin of premature ventricular contractions (PVC), one of the most frequent cardiac arrhythmias. The method combines electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) with digital twins of the heart, which helps to improve the accuracy with which the focus where these arrhythmias originate can be identified.