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
Angiogenic gene therapy, despite efficient vascular growth, is not able to improve muscle function in normoxic or chronically ischemic rabbit hindlimbs -role of capillary arterialization and shunting (2016)
Cardiovascular Research
(Muu (O2))
Cardiac rehabilitation improves coronary endothelial function in patients with heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy: A positron emission tomography study (2016)
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Sydämen PET-tutkimuksen edut ja käyttöaiheet (2016)
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))Effect of levosimendan therapy on myocardial infarct size and left ventricular function after acute coronary occlusion (2016)
Heart
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Incidence of persistent renal dysfunction after contrast enhanced coronary CT angiography in patients with suspected coronary artery disease (2016)
International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Lääkärit terveysviestijöiksi! (2016)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
The year 2014 in the European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging. Part I (2015)
EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))
Coronary heart disease risk factors, coronary artery calcification and epicardial fat volume in the Young Finns Study (2015)
EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Imaging mitochondrial membrane potential using a novel F-18-labeled BMS derivative (F-18-FP10X) (2015)
Journal of Nuclear Medicine
(Muu (O2))
Syy, ja sen seuraus (2015)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))