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
- Short-term effects of sacubitril/valsartan therapy on myocardial oxygen consumption and energetic efficiency of cardiac work in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: A randomized controlled study (2023)
- European Journal of Heart Failure
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Significance of myocardial flow reserve after revascularization (2023)
- EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - 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) - The impact of diabetes on the relationship of coronary artery disease and outcome: a study using multimodality imaging (2023)
- Cardiovascular Diabetology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Toiminnallinen mitraalivuoto: Miten tutkin ja hoidan? (2023)
- Sydänääni: Suomen Kardiologisen Seuran Lehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Use of cardiac imaging in chronic coronary syndromes: the EURECA Imaging registry (2023)
- European Heart Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Vascular adhesion protein-1-targeted PET imaging in autoimmune myocarditis (2023)
- Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Warranty period of coronary computed tomography angiography and [15O]H2O positron emission tomography in symptomatic patients (2023)
- EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 2022 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular assessment and management of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery Developed by the task force for cardiovascular assessment and management of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Endorsed by the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) (2022)
- European Heart Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 68Ga-Citrate Positron Emission Tomography of Healthy Men: Whole-Body Biodistribution Kinetics and Radiation Dose Estimates (2022)
- Journal of Nuclear Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - AAV2-VEGF-B gene therapy failed to induce angiogenesis in ischemic porcine myocardium due to inflammatory responses (2022)
- Gene Therapy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Assessment of a digital and an analog PET/CT system for accurate myocardial perfusion imaging with a flow phantom (2022)
- Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association of epicardial adipose tissue with proteomics, coronary flow reserve, cardiac structure and function, and quality of life in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: insights from the PROMIS-HFpEF study (2022)
- European Journal of Heart Failure
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Atherosclerotic plaque characteristics on quantitative coronary computed tomography angiography associated with ischemia on positron emission tomography in diabetic patients (2022)
- International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Classification of ischemia from myocardial polar maps in 15 O-H 2 O cardiac perfusion imaging using a convolutional neural network (2022)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Comment on Association of guideline-directed medical therapy adherence with outcomes after fractional flow reserve-based deferral of revascularization (2022)
- European heart journal. Cardiovascular pharmacotherapy
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Comparing Folate Receptor β Targeting Tracers in Experimental Myocarditis Model (2022)
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
(Other publication) - Corrigendum: Exploiting Glutamine Consumption in Atherosclerotic Lesions by Positron Emission Tomography Tracer (2S,4R)-4-18F-Fluoroglutamine(Front. Immunol., (2022), 13, (821423), 10.3389/fimmu.2022.821423) (2022)
- Frontiers in immunology
(Other publication) - Detailed behaviour of endothelial wall shear stress across coronary lesions from non-invasive imaging with coronary computed tomography angiography (2022)
- EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Digoxin use and outcomes after myocardial infarction in patients with atrial fibrillation (2022)
- Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



