Dynamic Voltage Mapping to Personalise the Ventricular Tachycardia Substrate (DYNAMITE-VT)

April 30, 2026 updated by: Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder and one of the commonest causes of heart-related sudden death. It often affects people who have had a heart attack or other structural heart damage. VT occurs when abnormal electrical circuits develop within and around scar tissue in the heart.

People at risk are usually offered an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD), a device that can detect VT and deliver a lifesaving shock. While effective, these shocks can be sudden, painful and distressing. Medications such as amiodarone can also help, but they are often unsuitable for long-term use due to their potential side effects on the liver, lungs and thyroid gland.

An alternative is catheter ablation. Thin tubes (catheters) are threaded from a blood vessel in the groin to the heart, allowing the cardiologist to identify scar tissue and abnormal electrical circuits, which can be destroyed using heat, freezing or electrical energy.

Although ablation can help many patients, VT can return in up to one in three people after the procedure. This is because it can be difficult to precisely identify the scar and surrounding tissue that sustain the abnormal circuits, making it challenging to know exactly where to apply ablation treatment.

Dynamic Voltage Mapping, is a technique which the investigators believe can more accurately identify scar and the critical bordering tissue during ablation. Initial data collected suggests that the approach accurately predicts the VT circuit and helps guide ablation.

In this study, the investigators wish to recruit 40 participants undergoing VT ablation to determine how effective Dynamic Voltage Mapping is in real-world procedures.

Study Overview

Status

Not yet recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

40

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United Kingdom
      • Liverpool, United Kingdom, L14 3PE
        • Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
        • Contact:
        • Contact:
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Vishal Luther, MRCP PhD ECES ECDS
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Justin Chiong, MBChB MSc MRCP

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Scheduled for clinically indicated VT ablation (due to sustained VT episodes or ICD therapies).
  • Willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the trial
  • Male or female aged between 18-85
  • Ischaemic and non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy
  • ICD insitu

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Unable or unwilling to consent
  • NYHA Class IV (end stage heart failure)
  • Metastatic cancer
  • End stage renal disease
  • Pregnant or breast feeding
  • Severe frailty

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Dynamic Voltage Mapping Guided Ablation
Patients assigned to this group will have Dynamic Voltage Maps available for the operator to view during the procedure to help guide ablation.
Procedure: Dynamic Voltage Mapping
Dynamic Voltage Mapping uses electrical information collected from catheters positioned within the heart to create an individualised map of the heart, which the investigators hypothesise will better identify scar and surrounding tissue responsible for ventricular tachycardia.
Other Names:
  • DVM
  • Dynamic Voltage Map
Active Comparator: Standard of Care Ablation
Patients assigned to this group will receive standard of care ablation, and operators will be blinded to Dynamic Voltage Maps created during the procedure.
Procedure: Standard of Care Ablation
Standard catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia, guided by operator preference
Other Names:
  • Catheter ablation

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Study Feasibility
Time Frame: From enrolment to end of follow up (1 year after procedure)
  1. Proportion of screened patients who were eligible, approached, consented and recruited
  2. Attrition rate: calculated as the total number of recruited patients who withdrew from the study or were lost to follow up
  3. Adherence: calculated as the proportion of recruited participants who were able to fully follow the study protocol in both DVM and standard of care arms during their VT ablation procedure.
From enrolment to end of follow up (1 year after procedure)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Procedural Time
Time Frame: From start of procedure to end (skin-to-skin)
Measured in minutes
From start of procedure to end (skin-to-skin)
Ablation time/number of lesions
Time Frame: From start of procedure to end (skin-to-skin)
Measured by number of ablation lesions applied
From start of procedure to end (skin-to-skin)
Acute VT non-inducibility
Time Frame: From start of procedure to end (skin-to-skin)
Ability to induce clinical VT at the end of the procedure
From start of procedure to end (skin-to-skin)
VT recurrence Rate
Time Frame: From end of procedure to end of follow up (12 months)
Number of sustained VT episodes/ICD shocks/therapies following procedure, recorded by implanted cardiac device
From end of procedure to end of follow up (12 months)

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Estimated)

August 3, 2026

Primary Completion (Estimated)

March 1, 2029

Study Completion (Estimated)

August 1, 2029

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 22, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 30, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

May 7, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

May 7, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 30, 2026

Last Verified

April 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 35371
  • FS/CRTF/25/24865 (Other Grant/Funding Number: British Heart Foundation)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

De-identified individual participant data underlying the results reported in publications (including baseline characteristics, procedural data, and outcome measures). Additional data may be available upon reasonable request, subject to institutional approvals and data sharing agreements.

IPD Sharing Time Frame

IPD and supporting information will be available beginning 6 months after publication of the primary results and will remain available for 5 years thereafter.

IPD Sharing Access Criteria

De-identified individual participant data and supporting documents (study protocol, statistical analysis plan, and analytic code) will be available to qualified researchers for scientifically sound proposals. Access will be granted upon reasonable request to the study's Chief Investigator, subject to review and approval by the sponsor and in accordance with institutional and regulatory requirements. Data will be shared under a formal data sharing agreement, and access will be provided via a secure data transfer method or controlled-access environment.

IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type

  • STUDY_PROTOCOL
  • SAP
  • ANALYTIC_CODE

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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