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
2017 ESC focused update on dual antiplatelet therapy in coronary artery disease developed in collaboration with EACTS (2018)
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
(Muu (O2))
Impact of Revascularization on Absolute Myocardial Blood Flow as Assessed by Serial [O-15]H2O Positron Emission Tomography Imaging: A Comparison With Fractional Flow Reserve (2018)
Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
2017 ESC update on dual antiplatelet therapy in coronary disease developed in collaboration with the EACTS Actualización ESC 2017 sobre el tratamiento antiagregante plaquetario doble en la enfermedad coronaria, desarrollada en colaboración con la EACTS (2018)
Revista Española de Cardiología
(Muu (O2))
Väitös korvavalosta (2018)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
The performance of non-invasive tests to rule-in and rule-out significant coronary artery stenosis in patients with stable angina: a meta-analysis focused on post-test disease probability (2018)
European Heart Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Sydämen magneettikuvaus (2018)
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))The Accuracy of Left Ventricular and Left Atrial Volumetry Using 64-Slice Computed Tomography: In Vitro Validation Study With Human Cardiac Cadaveric Casts (2018)
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Multimodality imaging: Bird's eye view from The European Society of Cardiology Congress 2017, Barcelona, August 26-30, 2017 (2018)
The European Society of Cardiology Congress 2017, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
PET myocardial perfusion quantification: anatomy of a spreading functional technique (2018)
Clinical and Translational Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))
Vastalääke ry (2018)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))