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List of works by Kari Saunamaki

7,528 patients treated with PCI--a Scandinavian real-life scenario

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A comparison of electrocardiographic QRS changes and two-dimensional echocardiographic left ventricular wall motion predischarge and in the 4th year following first acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

A comprehensive estimation of acute myocardial infarct size using enzymatic, electrocardiographic and mechanical methods

scientific article published in June 1987

A new approach to simultaneous multiple unipolar and bipolar esophageal electrocardiograms, and the findings in normal sinus rhythm.

scientific article published in September 1976

Accuracy of quantification of coronary arteriograms with hand-held calipers. A validation study

scientific article published in January 1994

Angiographic characteristics of intermediate stenosis of the left anterior descending artery for determination of lesion significance as identified by fractional flow reserve

scientific article published on 11 March 2015

Aptin, Hässle (Alprenolol)

scientific article published on 01 September 1969

Assessment of coronary artery stenosis pressure gradient by quantitative coronary arteriography in patients with coronary artery disease

scientific article published in January 1994

Assessment of left ventricular volumes by magnetic resonance in comparison with radionuclide angiography, contrast angiography and echocardiography

scientific article published on 01 December 1992

Assessment of rheumatic mitral valve disease. Value of echocardiography in patients clinically suspected of predominant stenosis

scientific article published on January 1983

Atrioventricular plane motion during dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography: the biphasic response in healthy subjects revisited

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Between observer variation is not eliminated by standardised analysis of dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography.

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Cardiac arrest during exercise: anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Cardioprotective effects of ischemic postconditioning in patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention, evaluated by magnetic resonance.

scientific article published on 26 January 2010

Clinical significance of the ST-segment response and other early exercise test variables in uncomplicated vs complicated myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 June 1987

Comparison of Selvester QRS score with magnetic resonance imaging measured infarct size in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction

scientific article published in May 2012

Comparison of methods of fractional area change for detection of regional left ventricular dysfunction

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Comparison of paclitaxel- and sirolimus-eluting stents in everyday clinical practice: the SORT OUT II randomized trial.

scientific article published on January 2008

Comparison of sirolimus-eluting and bare metal stents in coronary bifurcation lesions: subgroup analysis of the Stenting Coronary Arteries in Non-Stress/Benestent Disease Trial (SCANDSTENT).

scientific article published in December 2006

Continuous monitoring of global left ventricular ejection fraction during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

scientific article published on 01 April 1998

Coronary evaginations are associated with positive vessel remodelling and are nearly absent following implantation of newer-generation drug-eluting stents: an optical coherence tomography and intravascular ultrasound study

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Coronary heart disease in young age associated with essential thrombocythemia

scientific article published on 01 July 1992

DANAMI. A Danish study of invasive versus conservative treatment of patients with post-infarction ischemia who had received thrombolytic therapy

scientific article published in October 2000

Danish multicenter randomized study of invasive versus conservative treatment in patients with inducible ischemia after thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction (DANAMI). DANish trial in Acute Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published in August 1997

Deferred stent implantation in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a pilot study

scientific article published in February 2013

Deferred versus conventional stent implantation in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (DANAMI 3-DEFER): an open-label, randomised controlled trial

scientific article published in April 2016

Determinants of atrial natriuretic factor levels in coronary heart disease: significance of central pressures, heart chamber volumes and left ventricular mass

scientific article published in September 1989

Development of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 01 April 1986

Different patterns of hemodynamic abnormalities in patients with ischemic heart disease compared with patients with congestive cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 01 January 1986

Drug-eluting versus bare metal stents in patients with st-segment-elevation myocardial infarction: eight-month follow-up in the Drug Elution and Distal Protection in Acute Myocardial Infarction (DEDICATION) trial

scientific article published on 25 August 2008

ECG and enzymatic indicators of therapeutic success after intravenous streptokinase for acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 September 1990

Early exercise test in the assessment of long-term prognosis after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 January 1981

Early exercise test vs. clinical parameters in the long-term prognostic management after myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 January 1982

Early post-myocardial infarction exercise testing in subjects 70 years or more of age. Functional and prognostic evaluation

scientific article published on 01 November 1984

Echocardiographic Assessment of Regional and Global Left Ventricular Function Wall-Motion Scoring in Parasternal and Apical Views Versus Apical Views Alone.

scientific article published on July 1997

Effect of Everolimus Introduction on Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy—Results of a Randomized, Multicenter Trial

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Effect of Ischemic Postconditioning During Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article published on March 2017

Effect of early revascularisation in cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction. A single center experience.

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Effect of intravenous streptokinase on the relation between initial ST-predicted size and final QRS-estimated size of acute myocardial infarcts

scientific article published in November 1990

Effect of the imidazoline-derivative ST-91 on heart rate and blood pressure in healthy man.

scientific article published on June 1974

Effect of thrombolytic therapy on exercise response during early recovery from acute myocardial infarction: a placebo controlled study

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

Efficiency and safety of the sirolimus eluting stent in complex coronary artery lesions after cessation of dual antiplatelet therapy: fifteen months clinical outcome of the randomised Stenting Coronary Arteries in Non-stress/benestent Disease (SCAND

scientific article published in November 2007

Evolution of electrocardiographic and echocardiographic abnormalities during the 4 years following first acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 August 1995

Evolving non-Q wave versus Q wave myocardial infarction after thrombolysis: a high risk population benefitting from early revascularization. A DANAMI substudy

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Exenatide reduces reperfusion injury in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Exercise testing after myocardial infarction

scientific article published in January 1980

Feasibility and effect of physical training with maximum intensity in men after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 January 1978

Final infarct size measured by cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction predicts long-term clinical outcome: an observational study

scientific article published on 23 November 2012

Heart rate index: an indicator of left ventricular ejection fraction. Comparison of left ventricular ejection fraction and variables assessed by exercise test in patients studied early after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 August 1992

Heparin-coated stent placement for the treatment of stenoses in small coronary arteries of symptomatic patients

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Hospital prognosis for acute myocardial infarct at different stages of the development of the coronary care unit. Experiences from the introduction of full-term monitoring by telemetry and the abolishment of the coronary regimen

scientific article published in March 1976

How should I treat subacute stent thrombosis in the context of brain haemorrhage with abciximab?

scientific article published in February 2015

Hypercoagulation assessed by thromboelastography is neither related to infarct size nor to clinical outcome after primary percutaneous coronary intervention

scientific article published on 23 April 2013

Impact of acute hyperglycemia on myocardial infarct size, area at risk, and salvage in patients with STEMI and the association with exenatide treatment: results from a randomized study

scientific article published on 28 February 2014

Impact of system delay on infarct size, myocardial salvage index, and left ventricular function in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

scientific article published in October 2012

Influence of pre-infarction angina, collateral flow, and pre-procedural TIMI flow on myocardial salvage index by cardiac magnetic resonance in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 29 December 2011

Intravascular ultrasound assessed incomplete stent apposition and stent fracture in stent thrombosis after bare metal versus drug-eluting stent treatment the Nordic Intravascular Ultrasound Study (NIVUS)

scientific article published on 17 November 2012

Left atrial volume and function in patients following ST elevation myocardial infarction and the association with clinical outcome: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study

scientific article published on 12 June 2012

Letter: Bad experiences--or bad coronary care units?

scientific article published on April 8, 1974

Long-Term Outcome After Drug-Eluting Versus Bare-Metal Stent Implantation in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Long-term effects of invasive treatment in patients with a post-thrombolytic Q-wave myocardial infarction.

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Long-term outcome after drug-eluting versus bare-metal stent implantation in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: 5 years follow-up from the randomized DEDICATION trial (Drug Elution and Distal Protection in Acute Myocardial Inf

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Long-term outcome in patients treated with sirolimus-eluting stents in complex coronary artery lesions: 3-year results of the SCANDSTENT (Stenting Coronary Arteries in Non-Stress/Benestent Disease) trial

scientific article published in May 2008

Long-term outcome of FFR-guided PCI for stable coronary artery disease in daily clinical practice: a propensity score-matched landmark analysis

scientific article published in February 2016

Long-term outcome of primary angioplasty compared with fibrinolysis across age groups: a Danish Multicenter Randomized Study on Fibrinolytic Therapy Versus Acute Coronary Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction (DANAMI-2) substudy

scientific article published on 2 July 2008

Long-term prognosis in an ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction population treated with routine primary percutaneous coronary intervention: from clinical trial to real-life experience

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Long-term safety and feasibility of three-vessel multimodality intravascular imaging in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: the IBIS-4 (integrated biomarker and imaging study) substudy.

scientific article published on 28 February 2015

Low restenosis rate of the NIR coronary stent: results of the Danish multicenter stent study (DANSTENT)--a randomized trial comparing a first-generation stent with a second-generation stent

scientific article published in February 2003

MR-proADM as a Prognostic Marker in Patients With ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction-DANAMI-3 (a Danish Study of Optimal Acute Treatment of Patients With STEMI) Substudy.

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Myocardial blood flow rate and capillary permeability for 99mTc-DTPA in patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries. Evaluation of the single-injection, residue detection method with intracoronary indicator bolus injection and the use of

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Natural history of optical coherence tomography-detected non-flow-limiting edge dissections following drug-eluting stent implantation

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

Optical coherence tomography at follow-up after percutaneous coronary intervention: relationship between procedural dissections, stent strut malapposition and stent healing

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Optimal catchment area and primary PCI centre volume revisited: a single-centre experience in transition from high-volume centre to "mega centre" for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 25 November 2014

Percutaneous coronary intervention in Denmark from 1989 to 1998. Results from the Danish PTCA registry

scientific article published in July 2003

Percutaneous revascularization in acute myocardial infarction due to left main stem occlusion

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Percutaneous transradial coronary angiography and angioplasty in patients with occlusive atherosclerotic iliofemoral disease

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Percutaneous treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions: a novel "extended Y" technique with complete lesion stent coverage

scientific article published on July 2006

Pericardial haematopoiesis with tamponade in myelofibrosis

scientific article published on 01 March 1985

Permanent impairment of renal function after methicillin nephropathy

scientific article published on November 13, 1971

Post-myocardial infarction exercise testing: clinical significance of a left ventricular function index and ventricular arrhythmias. A prospective study

Prasugrel or double-dose clopidogrel to overcome clopidogrel low-response--the TAILOR (Thrombocytes And IndividuaLization of ORal antiplatelet therapy in percutaneous coronary intervention) randomized trial.

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Pre-discharge exercise test for evaluation of patients with complete or incomplete revascularization following primary percutaneous coronary intervention: a DANAMI-2 sub-study

scientific article published on 28 August 2007

Predictors and prognostic value of left atrial remodelling after acute myocardial infarction.

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Predictors of coronary in-stent restenosis: importance of angiotensin-converting enzyme gene polymorphism and treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors

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Prehospital administration of P2Y12 inhibitors and early coronary reperfusion in primary PCI: an observational comparative study.

scientific article published on 21 May 2015

Prognostic evaluation by clinical exercise test scores in patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention or fibrinolysis for acute myocardial infarction (a Danish Trial in Acute Myocardial Infarction-2 Sub-Study).

scientific article published on 19 July 2007

Prognostic significance of the ST-segment response during exercise test shortly after acute myocardial infarction. Comparison with other exercise variables

scientific article published on 01 November 1983

Quantitative analysis of dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography

scientific article published in September 2003

Quantitative analysis of dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography by fractional area change

scientific article published in September 2002

Randomized comparison of distal protection versus conventional treatment in primary percutaneous coronary intervention: the drug elution and distal protection in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (DEDICATION) trial

scientific article published in March 2008

Randomized double-blind Scandinavian trial of angiopeptin versus placebo for the prevention of clinical events and restenosis after coronary balloon angioplasty

scientific article published in July 1995

Randomized evaluation of polytetrafluoroethylene-covered stent in saphenous vein grafts: the Randomized Evaluation of polytetrafluoroethylene COVERed stent in Saphenous vein grafts (RECOVERS) Trial

scientific article published on 23 June 2003

Recovery of pulmonary diffusing capacity after maximal exercise

scientific article published on 01 December 1992

Reproducibility of cardiac volume measurements including left ventricular mass determined by MRI

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

Restenosis in coronary bare metal stents. Importance of time to follow-up: a comparison of coronary angiograms 6 months and 4 years after implantation

scientific article published in April 2009

Revascularization compared to medical treatment in patients with silent vs. symptomatic residual ischemia after thrombolyzed myocardial infarction--the DANAMI study

scientific article published on 14 November 2006

ST peak during percutaneous coronary intervention serves as an early prognostic predictor in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

ST peak during primary percutaneous coronary intervention predicts final infarct size, left ventricular function, and clinical outcome

scientific article

ST-Segment resolution and clinical outcome with ischemic postconditioning and comparison to magnetic resonance

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Search and rescue helicopter-assisted transfer of ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients from an island in the Baltic Sea: results from over 100 rescue missions

scientific article published on 22 July 2013

Short- and long-term cause of death in patients treated with primary PCI for STEMI.

scientific article published on 10 November 2014

Significance and management of early graft failure after coronary artery bypass grafting: feasibility and results of acute angiography and re-re-vascularization

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Significance of cardiac arrhythmias preceding first cardiac arrest in patients with acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 January 1976

Sirolimus versus bare metal stent implantation in patients with total coronary occlusions: subgroup analysis of the Stenting Coronary Arteries in Non-Stress/Benestent Disease (SCANDSTENT) trial

scientific article published in November 2006

Sirolimus-eluting versus bare-metal stent implantation in patients with ostial lesions

scientific article published on 28 August 2009

Stent thrombosis is the primary cause of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction following coronary stent implantation: a five year follow-up of the SORT OUT II study.

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Strut apposition after coronary stent implantation visualised with optical coherence tomography

article published in 2010

Systemic drugs for restenosis prevention: old idea, new drugs

scientific article published on 2 November 2009

Tailored antiplatelet therapy to improve prognosis in patients exhibiting clopidogrel low-response prior to percutaneous coronary intervention for stable angina or non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome

scientific article published on 28 August 2014

Target vessel revascularization following percutaneous coronary intervention. A 10-year report from the Danish Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty Registry

scientific article published in April 2005

The Stenting Coronary Arteries in Non-stress/benestent Disease (SCANDSTENT) trial.

scientific article published on 9 December 2005

The impact of distal embolization and distal protection on long-term outcome in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction randomized to primary percutaneous coronary intervention--results from a randomized study.

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The left ventricular end-systolic pressure and pressure-volume index. Comparison between invasive and auscultatory arm pressure measurements

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

The prognostic value of pre-discharge exercise testing after myocardial infarction treated with either primary PCI or fibrinolysis: a DANAMI-2 sub-study

scientific article published on 06 December 2004

The role of exercise testing soon after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 January 1983

Total atrioventricular block in acute myocardial infarct

scientific article published in December 1976

Usefulness of Preprocedure High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein to Predict Death, Recurrent Myocardial Infarction, and Stent Thrombosis According to Stent Type in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Randomized to Bare Metal or Dru

scientific article published on 23 March 2011

Virtual Histology Assessment of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Following Introduction of Everolimus-Results of a Multicenter Trial

scientific article published on 07 September 2012

Virtual histology and the hunt for the vulnerable plaque

scientific article published on 23 November 2006

WITHDRAWN: Quantitative Analysis of Dobutamine-Atropine Stress Echocardiography

retracted scientific article published on 10 October 2006

[2-dimensional echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular dyssynergy after acute myocardial infarction]

scientific article published on 01 November 1984

[Angiopeptin versus placebo for reductin of restenosis after PTCA treatment. A randomized, double-blind study]

scientific article published on 01 November 1996

[Electrocardiography and serum CK-MB determination in myocardial infarction and reperfusion in patients treated with intravenous streptokinase or placebo]

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

[Exercise ECG versus myocardial scintigraphy and coronary arteriography]

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

[Exercise echocardiography. A new valuable method for demonstration or exclusion of myocardial ischemia]

scientific article published on 01 September 1992

[Impending paradoxical embolism and pulmonary embolism. Diagnosis and treatment]

scientific article published on 01 September 1987

[Late cardiac tamponade after open heart surgery]

scientific article

[Methicillin nephropathy]

scientific article published on 01 September 1971

[Myxoma of the left atrium. The clinical picture and diagnostic significance of two-dimensional echocardiography]

scientific article published on 01 June 1984

[Optical coherence tomography for coronary visualisation]

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

[Primary percutanous intervention in acute mycardial infarction. A comparison with the DANAMI-2 results].

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[Stents in the treatment of coronary artery diseases]

scientific article published on 01 March 1997

[Streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction]

scientific article published on 01 October 1989

[The anti-arrythmic affect of a new beta-adrenergic blocking agent (H 56-28, Aptin). A study with the aid of continuing ECG-monitoring]

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[The effect of thrombolytic therapy on the outcome of early exercise test in patients with acute myocardial infarction]

scientific article published on 01 July 1994

[The importance of physical exercise in rehabilitation of patients with ischemic heart disease]

scientific article published on 01 August 2003