Svend Aakhus
Professor, Consultant in Cardiology Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences NTNU, Det medisinske fakultet Institutt for sirkulasjon og bildediagnostikk Postboks 8905 7491 Trondheim Norway
Background and activities
Consultant in Cardiology
Clinical cardiology, echocardiography
Research topics:
Valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathies, myocardial function, ventriculaovascular interaction, cardio-oncology.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2017) Wnt5a is associated with right ventricular dysfunction and adverse outcome in dilated cardiomyopathy. Scientific Reports. vol. 7 (1).
- (2017) Wnt5a is elevated in heart failure and affects cardiac fibroblast function. Journal of Molecular Medicine. vol. 95 (7).
- (2017) Left Ventricular Contraction Pattern in Chronic Aortic Regurgitation and Preserved Ejection Fraction: Simultaneous Stress-Strain Analysis by Three-Dimensional Echocardiography. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. vol. 30 (4).
- (2017) Increased clutter level in echocardiography due to specular reflection. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering.
- (2017) Effect of interleukin-6 inhibition on coronary microvascular and endothelial function in myocardial infarction. Heart. vol. 103 (19).
- (2017) Cardiac Assessment of Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Median 10 Years After Successful Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation Compared With Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Transplantation. vol. 101 (6).
- (2017) The Notch Ligands DLL1 and Periostin Are Associated with Symptom Severity and Diastolic Function in Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research.
- (2016) Echocardiographic evidence of right ventricular functional improvement after balloon pulmonary angioplasty in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. vol. 35 (1).
- (2016) Controlled release metoprolol for aortic regurgitation: a randomised clinical trial. Heart. vol. 102 (3).
- (2016) Exercise capacity and peak oxygen consumption in asymptomatic patients with chronic aortic regurgitation. International Journal of Cardiology. vol. 223.
- (2016) Utility of Global Longitudinal Strain by Echocardiography to Detect Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Long-Term Adult Survivors of Childhood Lymphoma and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. American Journal of Cardiology. vol. 118 (3).
- (2016) Right ventricular function in long-term adult survivors of childhood lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging. vol. 17 (7).
- (2016) Intraoperative improvement in left ventricular peak systolic velocity predicts better short-term outcome after transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. vol. 22 (1).
- (2016) Long-term outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: The impact of intraoperative tissue Doppler echocardiography. Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. vol. 23 (3).
- (2016) Eliciting patient risk willingness in clinical consultations as a means of improving decision-making of aortic valve replacement. Journal of the American Heart Association. vol. 5:e002828 (3).
- (2016) Influence of septal thickness on the clinical outcome after alcohol septal alation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions. vol. 9:e003214 (6).
- (2016) Effect of a single dose of the interleukin-6 receptor antagonist tocilizumab on inflammation and troponin T release in patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled phase 2 trial. European Heart Journal. vol. 37 (30).
- (2016) Long-term cardiovascular outcomes in type 1 diabetic patients after simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation compared with living donor kidney transplantation. Diabetologia. vol. 59 (4).
- (2016) Impaired Right Ventricular Function in Long-Term Lymphoma Survivors. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. vol. 29 (6).
- (2016) Valvular Dysfunction in Lymphoma Survivors Treated with Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation A National Cross-Sectional Study. JACC Cardiovascular Imaging. vol. 9 (3).