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
Exercise Training Reduces Intrathoracic Fat Regardless of Defective Glucose Tolerance (2017)
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Uusi lääkärin vala (2017)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Accuracy of echocardiographic area-length method in chronic myocardial infarction: comparison with cardiac CT in pigs (2017)
Cardiovascular Ultrasound
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Adenoviral intramyocardial VEGF-D(ΔNΔC) gene transfer increases myocardial perfusion reserve in refractory angina patients: a phase I/IIa study with 1-year follow-up (2017)
European Heart Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Nosebo (2017)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Corrigendum to ‘2017 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease’ [Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2017;52:616-664] (2017)
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
(Muu (O2))
Ravintolisätkö vaarattomia? (2017)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Positron emission tomography tracer [68Ga]NODAGA-Exendin-4 detects glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor expression in mouse atherosclerotic vascular lesions (2017)
Atherosclerosis
(Muu (O2))
Comparison of Ga-68-DOTA-Siglec-9 and F-18-Fluorodeoxyribose-Siglec-9: Inflammation Imaging and Radiation Dosimetry (2017)
Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
18-kDa translocator protein ligand 18F-FEMPA: Biodistribution and uptake into atherosclerotic plaques in mice (2017)
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))