Tuomas
Kiviniemi
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
MD, PhD, FESC
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Areas of expertise
Cardiology
Clinical trials
Atrial fibrillation
Coronary artery disease
Percutaneous coronary intervention
Pacemaker
Anticoagulation
Bleeding;
Biography
As a clinical cardiologist with a specific research interest in atrial fibrillation (AF) and long-term complications after percutaneous and surgical procedures, I have established a research group, which includes 10 PhD students at present. From a clinical point of view, my specific focus is AF patients undergoing cardiac procedures.
Teaching
Cardiology, ECG, Echocardiography, Atrial fibrillation, Anticoagulation
Research
PI leads CAREFIB Consortium, which aims to reduce the burden of atrial fibrillation and its adverse outcome stroke in patients undergoing cardiac procedures. This consortium is divided into three major studies: a retrospective epidemiological CAREAVR study; a prospective CAREBANK biobank and a prospective LAA-CLOSURE trial.
Publications
Occurrence and Classification of Cerebrovascular Events after Isolated Bioprosthetic Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: A Competing Risk Analysis of the CAREAVR Study (2018)
Structural Heart
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
MOBILE PHONE DETECTION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: THE MODE-AF STUDY (2018)
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
How do anticoagulated atrial fibrillation patients who suffer ischemic stroke or spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage differ? (2018)
Clinical Cardiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Population trends in mitral valve surgery in Finland between 1997 and 2014: the finnish CVD register (2018)
Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Occurrence of Postpericardiotomy Syndrome: Association With Operation Type and Postoperative Mortality After Open-Heart Operations (2018)
Journal of the American Heart Association
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Preoperative predictors for systemic inflammatory response in open-heart surgery (2018)
ESC 2018, European Heart Journal
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Thromboembolisms related to post-operative electrical cardioversions for atrial fibrillation in patients with surgical aortic valve replacement (2018)
European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Outcome of octogenarians with atrial fibrillation undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: insights from the AFCAS registry (2017)
Clinical Cardiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Imaging of αvβ3 integrin expression in experimental myocardial ischemia with [68Ga]NODAGA-RGD positron emission tomography (2017)
Journal of Translational Medicine
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Automated Detection of Atrial Fibrillation Based on Time-Frequency Analysis of Seismocardiograms (2017)
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))