Juhani
Knuuti
Director, Turku PET Centre
InFLAMES Flagship
MD, professor, Turku PET Centre
Cardiovascular diseases, imaging
Biography
Juhani Knuuti’s research has focused on the physiology and pathophysiology, diagnosis and new therapies of coronary artery disease, heart failure and metabolic diseases. The research is also focused on developing and utilizing novel noninvasive imaging methods (PET, SPECT, echocardiography, MRI and CT) that will help to determine the risk and severity of CHD and heart failure and provide guidance for therapy decisions. The recent focus in cardiac research has been on vulnerable plaques, cardiac remodelling and multimodality and hybrid imaging. In metabolic and diabetes research, the focus has been in the interactions between different organs and heart in the pathogenesis and development of the cardiac diseases.
Publications
Quantitative Perfusion Imaging with Total-Body PET (2023)
Journal of Nuclear Medicine
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))
Myocardial Perfusion PET for the Detection and Reporting of Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction: A JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging Expert Panel Statement (2023)
JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
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Short-term effects of sacubitril/valsartan therapy on myocardial oxygen consumption and energetic efficiency of cardiac work in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: A randomized controlled study (2023)
European Journal of Heart Failure
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Voiko nivelreumaa hoitaa ruokavaliolla? (2023)
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))Prognostic implications of left ventricular inward displacement assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in patients with myocardial infarction (2023)
International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
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Lääketieteen ulkopuolisten hoitojen sääntely Suomeen! Osa 4. (2023)
(Muu (O2))Comparison of high-sensitive cardiac troponin T and I in patients with chronic coronary syndrome (2023)
European Journal of Clinical Investigation
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Lääketieteen ulkopuolisten hoitojen sääntely Suomeen! Osa 1. (2023)
(Muu (O2))Exercise electrocardiography for pre-test assessment of the likelihood of coronary artery disease (2023)
Heart
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Relation Between Coronary Plaque Composition Assessed by Intravascular Ultrasound Virtual Histology and Myocardial Ischemia Assessed by Quantitative Flow Ratio (2023)
American Journal of Cardiology
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