Sapna Nagar
University of Chicago
12 Papers
14 Citations
Sapna Nagar is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Thyroid cancer. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 12 publications. Previous affiliations of Sapna Nagar include Oakland University.
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Papers
Risk Factors for Decreased Quality of Life in Thyroid Cancer Survivors: Initial Findings from the North American Thyroid Cancer Survivorship Study.
Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy,Benjamin C. James,Sapna Nagar,Sharone P. Kaplan,Vanessa Seng,Habibul Ahsan,Peter Angelos,Edwin L. Kaplan,Marlon A. Guerrero,Jennifer H. Kuo,James A. Lee,Elliot J. Mitmaker,Jacob Moalem,Daniel T. Ruan,Wen T. Shen,Raymon H. Grogan +15 more
TL;DR: Thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment can result in a decreased quality of life (QoL), and better tools to measure and improve thyroid cancer survivor QoL are needed.
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A multi-institutional international study of risk factors for hematoma after thyroidectomy.
Michael J. Campbell,Kelly L. McCoy,Wen T. Shen,Sally E. Carty,Carrie C. Lubitz,Jacob Moalem,Matthew A. Nehs,Tammy M. Holm,David Yu Greenblatt,Danielle Press,Xiaoxi Feng,Allan Siperstein,Elliot J. Mitmaker,Cassandre E. Benay,Roger Tabah,Sarah C. Oltmann,Herbert Chen,Rebecca S. Sippel,Andrew V. Brekke,Menno R. Vriens,Lutske Lodewijk,Antonia E. Stephen,Sapna Nagar,Peter Angelos,Maher Ghanem,Jason D. Prescott,Martha A. Zeiger,Patricia Aragon Han,Cord Sturgeon,Dina M. Elaraj,Iain J. Nixon,Snehal G. Patel,Stephen W. Bayles,Rachel E. Heneghan,Peter Ochieng,Marlon A. Guerrero,Daniel T. Ruan +36 more
TL;DR: Hematoma is associated with patients who have a drain or hemostatic agent, have Graves' disease, are actively using antiplatelet/anticoagulation medications or have large thyroids, and surgeons should consider these factors when individualizing patient disposition after thyroidectomy.
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Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma: How Have Histologic Diagnoses Changed in the Last Half-Century and What Are the Prognostic Implications?
Nicole A. Cipriani,Sapna Nagar,Sharone P. Kaplan,Michael G. White,Tatjana Antic,Peter M. Sadow,Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy,Peter Angelos,Edwin L. Kaplan,Raymon H. Grogan +9 more
TL;DR: The aims of this study were to review FTC histologically at the authors' tertiary care institution and to evaluate long-term survival and recurrence.
Benign and Malignant Thyroid Incidentalomas are Rare in Routine Clinical Practice: A Review of 97,908 Imaging Studies
Abhineet Uppal,Michael G. White,Sapna Nagar,Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy,Paul J. Chang,Peter Angelos,Edwin L. Kaplan,Raymon H. Grogan +7 more
TL;DR: Routine clinical reporting of incidental thyroid nodules is far less common than on dedicated review, contradict the notion that incidentalomas contribute significantly to rising thyroid cancer rates.
One-hour PTH after thyroidectomy predicts symptomatic hypocalcemia.
Michael G. White,Benjamin C. James,Cheryl C. Nocon,Sapna Nagar,Edwin L. Kaplan,Peter Angelos,Raymon H. Grogan +6 more
TL;DR: A 1-h postoperative PACU PTH is equivalent to POD1 PTH in predicting the development of symptomatic hypocalcemia and improve the sensitivity of biochemical screening alone.
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