Haitham Ballo
MD, PhD, FEACVI
haitham.ballo@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1104-7125 |
Areas of expertise
Cardiac imaging, Coronary artery, disease Heart failure
Cardiac imaging, Coronary artery, disease Heart failure
Publications
- Evaluation of myocardial viability: a comparative study between parametric [15o] water PET/CT imaging and speckle tracking echocardiography (2026)
- EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(Abstract) - Evaluation of myocardial work indices during targeted temperature management in cardiac arrest patients (2025)
- European heart journal open
(Abstract) - The relationships between non-invasive myocardial work indices, myocardial blood flow and viability determined by PET (2025)
- EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(Abstract) - Trajectories and determinants of myocardial work indices in patients with acute myocardial infarction after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (2025)
- EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(Abstract) - 18F-FDG PET/CT in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis (2024)
- European Heart Journal
(Abstract) - Factors predictive of extensive use of CPAP treatment in obstructive sleep apnoea (2024)
- Sleep and Breathing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The effects of myocardial bridging on two-dimensional myocardial strain during dobutamine stress echocardiography (2024)
- International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Diagnostic performance of somatostatin receptor imaging by PET/CT in patients with cardiac sarcoidosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2023)
- EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(Abstract) - Speckle-tracking echocardiography for predicting improvement of myocardial contractile function after revascularization: a meta-analysis of prospective trials (2023)
- International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effect of Inhaled Xenon on Cardiac Function in Comatose Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest—A Substudy of the Xenon in Combination With Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest Trial (2021)
- Critical Care Explorations
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



