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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
Novel TSPO ligand 18F-FEMPA: biodistribution and uptake into atherosclerotic plaques in mice (2015)
EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Miten toimin kun epäilen terveysväitteen todenperäisyyttä? (2015)
(O2 Muu julkaisu )Phosphorylcholine antibody attenuates inflammation and preserves coronary vascular function in atherosclerotic mice (2015)
European Heart Journal Supplements
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Sydänkuolleisuuden väitetty kasvu on täyttä puppua, osa 2 (2015)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Mitä kuolleisuusluvut kertovat väestön terveydentilasta? (2015)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Detection of increased myocardial integrin alphaVbeta3 expression in a pig model of inducible myocardial ischemia using [68Ga]-NODAGA-RGD PET (2015)
EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Risks and benefits of cardiac imaging: an analysis of risks related to imaging for coronary artery disease (2014)
European Heart Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
New ESC/ESA Guidelines on non-cardiac surgery: cardiovascular assessment and management (2014)
European Heart Journal
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Reply to "Letter to the editor: 'Deconstructing the dogma of sympathetic restraint and its role in the cardiovascular response to exercise'" (2014)
AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Characterization of coronary microvascular dysfunction in patients with suspected coronary artery disease (2014)
European Heart Journal
(O2 Muu julkaisu )