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Heart surgery imaging

Research group
01.01.2022 -
Institute of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences

Leaders

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Teams and collaborators

Kuopio University Hospital
PO BOX 100, 70029 KYS, Finland
Heart Center, Heart and lung surgery

  • Marja Hedman, MD, professor, leader of the study
  • Annastiina Husso, MD, PhD, heart surgeon
  • Antti Valtola, MD, adj. professor, heart surgeon
  • Juhana Toimela, MD, PhD researcher
  • Tarmo Korpela, BMSc, PhD researcher
  • Iida Viitala, MD, PhD researcher
  • Lari Kujanen, BSc, study coordinator

Clinical Imaging Center
Clinical Radiology and Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Imaging

  • Petteri Kauhanen, MD, PhD, post doc researcher
  • Saara Sillanmäki, MD, PhD, post doc researcher
  • Line Lottonen-Raikaslehto, MD, PhD, post doc researcher
  • Minna Husso, MSc, PhD, hospital physicist
  • Elias Ylä-Herttuala, MSc, PhD, hospital physicist
  • Petri Saari, MD, PhD, vascular radiologist
  • Hanna Matikka, MSc, PhD, hospital physicist
  • Sami Väänänen, MSc, Phd, hospital physicist

Department of Anestesiology and Intensive care

  • Petri Toroi, BSc, study nurse
  • Maarit Lång, MD, PhD, clinical collaborator

University of Eastern Finland
PO BOX 1627, 70211 Kuopio, Finland

A.I.Virtanen Institute Molecular Sciences

  • Johanna Laakkonen, PhD, associate professor
  • Miika Kiema, MSc, doctoral researcher
  • Heta Rasinkangas, medical student, doctoral researcher
  • Akseli Kivistö-Rahnasto, medical student, researcher
  • Emma-Sofia Luoto, medical student, researcher
  • Suvi Jauhiainen, PhD, project researcher
  • Jussi Tohka, PhD, professor of biomedical image analysis

Department of Applied Physics

  • Jaakko Sarin, PhD, docent
  • Jari Torniainen, PhD, post doc researcher

Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences
PO BOX 207, 40101 Jyväskylä, Finland
Industrial engineering

  • Matti Kurki, adjunct professor, principal researcher
  • Tero Tuovinen, adjunct professor, researcher
  • Tomi Nieminen, lector, researcher

Karolinska Institutet
17177 Stockholm, Sweden
Dept. of Molecular Medicine and Surgery

  • David Marlevi, MD, PhD, post doc researcher
  • Martin Ugander, MD, professor
  • Klara Blomdahl, MD, PhD researcher

University of Sydney

  • Martin Ugander, MD, professor

University of Haute-Alsace
Mulhouse, France

  • Frederic Heim, MS, professor

Publications

Aortic dilatation associates with flow displacement and increased circumferential wall shear stress in patients without aortic stenosis: A prospective clinical study

High prevelance of ascending aortic dilatation in a consecutive coronary CT angiography patient population

A smaller heart-aorta-angle associates with ascending aortic dilatation and increases wall shear stress

Pulmonary Artery Dilatation Is a Common Finding in a Coronary Artery CT Angiography Population

Excess of visceral adipose tissue with or without aortic elongation leads to a steeper  heart position

Wall Shear Stress Predicts Media Degeneration and Biomechanical Changes in Thoracic Aorta

Dilatation of the ascending aorta – Growth rate, risk factors and clinical outcomes in the long-term follow-up

Flow displacement and decreased wall shear stress might be associated with the growth rate of an ascending aortic dilatation

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