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
Organ-specific physiological responses to acute physical exercise and long-term training in humans (2014)
Physiology
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))
Quantitative Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion in the Detection of Significant Coronary Artery Disease: Cutoff Values and Diagnostic Accuracy of Quantitative [O-15]H2O PET Imaging (2014)
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The appropriate and justified use of medical radiation in cardiovascular imaging: a position document of the ESC Associations of Cardiovascular Imaging, Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions and Electrophysiology (2014)
European Heart Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Myocardial blood flow and its transit time, oxygen utilization, and efficiency of highly endurance-trained human heart. (2014)
Basic Research in Cardiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Capacity and hypoxic response of subcutaneous adipose tissue blood flow in humans (2014)
Circulation Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Wytyczne ESC/EACTS dotyczace rewaskularyzacji miȩśnia sercowego w 2014 roku [2014 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization] (2014)
Kardiologia Polska
(Muu (O2))
[18F]fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in atherosclerotic plaques is associated with reduced coronary flow reserve in mice (2014)
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism of the European Society of Cardiology. 2014 ESC guidelines on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism. (2014)
European Heart Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
ESC guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases developed in collaboration with the EASD - summary. Task Force on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC); European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) (2014)
Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Imaging of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor expression after experimental myocardial infarction with 68Ga-NODAGA-Exendin-4 (2014)
Journal of Nuclear Medicine
(Muu (O2))