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
2013 ESC Guidelines on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy (2013)
EP-Europace
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Validation of [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose and positron emission tomography (PET) for the measurement of intestinal metabolism in pigs, and evidence of intestinal insulin resistance in patients with morbid obesity (2013)
Diabetologia
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Pulmonary blood flow and its distribution in highly trained endurance athletes and healthy control subjects (2013)
Journal of Applied Physiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Computed tomographic coronary angiography for patients with heart failure (CTA-HF): a randomized controlled trial (IMAGE HF Project 1-C) (2013)
Trials
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Exercise training improves insulin sensitivity in abdominal adipose tissue but not in brown adipose tissue in healthy, sedentary, middle aged men (2013)
Diabetologia
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
The year 2012 in the European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging. Part II (2013)
EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Inhibition of alpha-adrenergic tone disturbs the distribution of blood flow in the exercising human limb (2013)
AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Routine versus selective cardiac magnetic resonance in non-ischemic heart failure - OUTSMART-HF: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (IMAGE-HF (heart failure) project 1-B) (2013)
Trials
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Athlete's heart: adaptations in blood flow, oxygen utilization, and efficiency at rest and during exercise (2013)
FASEB Journal
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
2013 ESH/ESC Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension: The Task Force for the management of arterial hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) (2013)
Journal of Hypertension
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))