Video: Personalised 3D computer models of patients' hearts have been created to help cardiologists carry out life saving treatments
Personalised 3D computer models of patients' hearts have been created to help cardiologists carry out life saving treatments.
By The Newsroom
Published 11th May 2016, 10:30 GMT
Updated 11th May 2016, 11:35 GMT
The virtual organs, for instance, can work out a heart attack victims’ risk of developing a potentially fatal irregular beat. They can then be surgically implanted with a defibrillator, a device that applies electric shocks to the heart when its rhythm goes out of kilter. Arrhythmias or heart rhythm problems are experienced by more than two million people a year in the UK.