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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Englum, Brian R., John Pura, Shelby D. Reed, Sanziana A. Roman, Julie A. Sosa, and Randall P. Scheri. “A Bedside Risk Calculator to Preoperatively Distinguish Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma from Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.” World J Surg 39, no. 12 (December 2015): 2928–34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-015-3192-4.
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    • Daneshmand, Mani A., Arun Krishnamoorthy, Marc D. Samsky, G Michael Felker, John A. Pura, Yuliya Lokhnygina, Adrian F. Hernandez, et al. “Comparison of 2-Year Outcomes of Extended Criteria Cardiac Transplantation Versus Destination Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy Using Continuous Flow.” Am J Cardiol 116, no. 4 (August 15, 2015): 573–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2015.05.016.
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    • Wieslander, Björn, Robin Nijveldt, Igor Klem, Yuliya Lokhnygina, John Pura, Galen S. Wagner, Martin Ugander, and Brett D. Atwater. “Evaluation of Selvester QRS score for use in presence of conduction abnormalities in a broad population.” Am Heart J 170, no. 2 (August 2015): 346–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2015.05.005.
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    • Adam, Mohamed Abdelgadir, John Pura, Paolo Goffredo, Michaela A. Dinan, Shelby D. Reed, Randall P. Scheri, Terry Hyslop, Sanziana A. Roman, and Julie A. Sosa. “Presence and Number of Lymph Node Metastases Are Associated With Compromised Survival for Patients Younger Than Age 45 Years With Papillary Thyroid Cancer.” J Clin Oncol 33, no. 21 (July 20, 2015): 2370–75. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2014.59.8391.
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    • Goffredo, Paolo, Anna Mary Sawka, John Pura, Mohamed Abdelgadir Adam, Sanziana Alina Roman, and Julie Ann Sosa. “Malignant struma ovarii: a population-level analysis of a large series of 68 patients.” Thyroid : Official Journal of the American Thyroid Association 25, no. 2 (February 2015): 211–15. https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2014.0328.
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    • Adam, Mohamed Abdelgadir, John Pura, Paolo Goffredo, Michaela A. Dinan, Terry Hyslop, Shelby D. Reed, Randall P. Scheri, Sanziana A. Roman, and Julie A. Sosa. “Impact of extent of surgery on survival for papillary thyroid cancer patients younger than 45 years.” J Clin Endocrinol Metab 100, no. 1 (January 2015): 115–21. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2014-3039.
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    • Ahmad, Tariq, Teresa Wang, Emily C. O’Brien, Marc D. Samsky, John A. Pura, Yuliya Lokhnygina, Joseph G. Rogers, et al. “Effects of left ventricular assist device support on biomarkers of cardiovascular stress, fibrosis, fluid homeostasis, inflammation, and renal injury.” Jacc Heart Fail 3, no. 1 (January 2015): 30–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2014.06.013.
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    • Adam, Mohamed Abdelgadir, Paul Speicher, John Pura, Michaela A. Dinan, Shelby D. Reed, Sanziana A. Roman, and Julie A. Sosa. “Robotic thyroidectomy for cancer in the US: patterns of use and short-term outcomes.” Ann Surg Oncol 21, no. 12 (November 2014): 3859–64. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-014-3838-8.
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    • Adam, Mohamed Abdelgadir, John Pura, Lin Gu, Michaela A. Dinan, Douglas S. Tyler, Shelby D. Reed, Randall Scheri, Sanziana A. Roman, and Julie A. Sosa. “Extent of surgery for papillary thyroid cancer is not associated with survival: an analysis of 61,775 patients.” Ann Surg 260, no. 4 (October 2014): 601–5. https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000000925.
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    • Gratian, Lauren, John Pura, Michaela Dinan, Sanziana Roman, Shelby Reed, and Julie Ann Sosa. “Impact of extent of surgery on survival in patients with small nonfunctional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in the United States.” Ann Surg Oncol 21, no. 11 (October 2014): 3515–21. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-014-3769-4.
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    • Gratian, Lauren, John Pura, Michaela Dinan, Shelby Reed, Randall Scheri, Sanziana Roman, and Julie Ann Sosa. “Treatment patterns and outcomes for patients with adrenocortical carcinoma associated with hospital case volume in the United States.” Ann Surg Oncol 21, no. 11 (October 2014): 3509–14. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-014-3931-z.
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    • Dorth, Jennifer A., John A. Pura, Manisha Palta, Christopher G. Willett, Hope E. Uronis, Thomas A. D’Amico, and Brian G. Czito. “Patterns of recurrence after trimodality therapy for esophageal cancer.” Cancer 120, no. 14 (July 15, 2014): 2099–2105. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.28703.
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    • Koontz, Bridget F., Brian P. Quaranta, John A. Pura, W. R. Lee, Zeljko Vujaskovic, Leah Gerber, Michael Haake, et al. “Phase 1 trial of neoadjuvant radiation therapy before prostatectomy for high-risk prostate cancer.” Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 87, no. 1 (September 1, 2013): 88–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.05.014.
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    • Linguraru, Marius George, John A. Pura, Vivek Pamulapati, and Ronald M. Summers. “Statistical 4D graphs for multi-organ abdominal segmentation from multiphase CT.” Medical Image Analysis 16, no. 4 (May 2012): 904–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2012.02.001.
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    • Linguraru, Marius George, John A. Pura, Robert L. Van Uitert, Nisha Mukherjee, Ronald M. Summers, Caterina Minniti, Mark T. Gladwin, Gregory Kato, Roberto F. Machado, and Bradford J. Wood. “Segmentation and quantification of pulmonary artery for noninvasive CT assessment of sickle cell secondary pulmonary hypertension.” Medical Physics 37, no. 4 (April 2010): 1522–32. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.3355892.
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    • Linguraru, Marius George, John A. Pura, Ananda S. Chowdhury, and Ronald M. Summers. “Multi-organ segmentation from multi-phase abdominal CT via 4D graphs using enhancement, shape and location optimization.” Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention : Miccai ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention 13, no. Pt 3 (January 2010): 89–96. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15711-0_12.
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    • Linguraru, Marius George, Jesse K. Sandberg, Zhixi Li, John A. Pura, and Ronald M. Summers. “Atlas-based automated segmentation of spleen and liver using adaptive enhancement estimation.” Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention : Miccai ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention 12, no. Pt 2 (January 2009): 1001–8.

  • Conference Papers

    • Mowery, Y., I. Vergalasova, J. Pura, B. Peterson, D. Yoo, S. Das, and D. Brizel. “Changes in Tumor Volumes and 18F-FDG PET Characteristics During Radiation Therapy for HPV+ and HPV- Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC).” In International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 90:S560–S560. Elsevier BV, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.05.1694.
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    • Harris, M., W. Irish, J. Pura, A. Barbas, B. Englum, S. Sanoff, M. Ellis, et al. “Comparative Effectiveness of Triple Immunosuppressive Therapy Versus Steroid Avoidance or Early Withdrawal Among Kidney Transplant Recipients Over Age 65.” In Transplantation, 98:144–45. Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2014. https://doi.org/10.1097/00007890-201407151-00446.
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    • Harris, M., W. Irish, J. Pura, A. Barbas, B. Englum, S. Sanoff, M. Ellis, et al. “Comparative Effectiveness of Triple Immunosuppressive Therapy Versus Steroid Avoidance or Early Withdrawal Among Kidney Transplant Recipients Over Age 65.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 14:144–45. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2014.
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    • Cole, Jennifer, Travis Heath, David Turner, and John Pura. “879.” In Critical Care Medicine, 41:A220–A220. Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2013. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ccm.0000440117.64996.47.
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    • Pura, J. A., A. M. Hamilton, G. A. Vargish, J. A. Butman, and M. G. Linguraru. “Automated segmentation of ventricles from serial brain mri for the quantification of volumetric changes associated with communicating hydrocephalus in patients with brain tumor.” In Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging  Proceedings of Spie, Vol. 7965, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.877679.
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    • Linguraru, M. G., J. K. Sandberg, Z. Li, J. A. Pura, and R. M. Summers. “Atlas-based automated segmentation of spleen and liver using adaptive enhancement estimation.” In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 5762 LNCS:1001–8, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04271-3_121.
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