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
Age-, Sex- and glucose-dependent correlation of plasma soluble vascular adhesion protein-1 concentration with cardiovascular risk factors and subclinical atherosclerosis (2015)
Atherosclerosis
(Muu (O2))
Limitations of Chest Pain Categorization Models to Predict Coronary Artery Disease (2015)
American Journal of Cardiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Detection of Significant Coronary Artery Disease by Noninvasive Anatomical and Functional Imaging (2015)
Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Relative flow reserve derived from quantitative perfusion imaging may not outperform stress myocardial blood flow for identification of hemodynamically significant coronary artery disease (2015)
Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The Functional Effects of Intramural Course of Coronary Arteries and its Relation to Coronary Atherosclerosis (2015)
JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Uptake of 68Ga- and 18F-labelled Siglec-9 motif peptide tracers in atherosclerotic plaques (2015)
World Molecular Imaging Congress, Molecular Imaging and Biology
(Muu (O2))
Kokonaisvallaton kirjoitus (2015)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Effect of spinal cord stimulation on myocardial perfusion reserve in patients with refractory angina pectoris (2015)
EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Valetasapuolisuus ja valekompromissi (2015)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Perfusion imaging and coronary anatomy (2015)
EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))