Antti Saraste
MD, PhD, FESC
Heart Center, Turku University Hospital antsaras@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2488-0893 |
Areas of expertise
Cardiology; Imaging; Diagnostics; Coronary artery disease; Heart failure, Valvular heart disease
Cardiology; Imaging; Diagnostics; Coronary artery disease; Heart failure, Valvular heart disease
Biography
Medical Doctor 2000, Univeristy of Turku; PhD 2000 University of Turku; Associate Professor (tenure track) 2012, University of Turku; Professor 2020, University of Turku; Specialist in Cardiology 2007, University of Turku
Research
Multi modality imaging of cardiovascular diseases
Teaching
Cardiology, Cardiac imaging
Publications
- Decreased endothelin-1 levels after acute consumption of red wine and de-alcoholized red wine (2010)
- Atherosclerosis
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Integrated anatomy and viability assessment PET-CT (2010)
- Eurointervention
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mice with Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinases 4 (Timp4) Deletion Succumb to Induced Myocardial Infarction but Not to Cardiac Pressure Overload (2010)
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New clinical perspectives from imaging technologies for diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease (2010) Treatment Strategies - Cardiology; ESC Congress , Tukholma Knuuti J, Saraste A
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - PET and MRI in Cardiac Imaging (2010) Cardiac CT, PET and MR Nekolla S, Saraste A
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - PET Innervation and Receptors (2010) Cardiac CT, PET and MR Saraste A, Sherif H, Schwaiger M
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-B Acts as a Coronary Growth Factor in Transgenic Rats Without Inducing Angiogenesis, Vascular Leak, or Inflammation (2010)
- Circulation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Echocardiography in Fabry disease: diagnostic value of endocardial border binary appearance (2009)
- Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - High dose of red wine elicits enhanced inhibition of fibrinolysis (2009)
- European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of cognac on coronary flow reserve and plasma antioxidant status in healthy young men (2008)
- Cardiovascular Ultrasound
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A moderate dose of red wine, but not de-alcoholized red wine increases coronary flow reserve (2007)
- Atherosclerosis
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Coronary artery flow velocity profile measured by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography predicts myocardial viability after acute myocardial infarction (2007)
- Heart
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Vasodilation of epicardial coronary artery can be measured with transthoracic echocardiography (2007)
- Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Coronary flow reserve and heart failure in experimental coxsackievirus myocarditis. A transthoracic Doppler echocardiography study (2006)
- AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



