Heart surgery imaging

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