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Scientific Papers

  • Omalu BI, Abdulrazek SA, Guoji W, Lipkin WI, Wiley CA.T Fatal Fulminant Pan-Meningo-Polioencephalitis Due to West Nile Virus. Brain Pathology 2003;T13[4]:465-472.    
  • Omalu B, Abdulrezak SM, Rozin L, Ladham S, Wecht CH. Post-mortem grading of cerebral contusions: a proposed modification of the Adams’ contusion index with re-definition of anatomic markers. Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology. June 2005;1(2):105-112. 
  • Omalu BI, Luckasevic T, Abdulrezak SM, Rozin L, Wecht CH, Kuller LH. Post-bariatric surgery deaths, which fall under the jurisdiction of a coroner. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2004 Sep; 25(3):237-242.
  • Lee JYK, Finkelstein S, Hamilton RL, Rekha R, King Jr. JTK, Omalu B. Loss of Heterozygosity Analysis of Benign, Atypical, and Anaplastic Meningiomas. Neurosurgery 2004; 55(5):1163-1173.
  • Koehler SA, Weiss H, Songer TJ, Rozin L, Shakir A, Ladham S, Omalu B, Dominick J, Wecht CH. Deaths among criminal suspects, law enforcement officers, civilians and prison inmates. A coroner-based study. The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 2003; 24(4):334-338. 
  • Omalu B, Diagnosis of traumatic diffuse axonal injury. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2004; 25(3):270-271.
  • Omalu BI, Dekosky ST Minster RL, Kamboh MI,.Hamilton, R, Wecht CH. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player. Neurosurgery. 2005 Jul;57(1):128-34.
  • Omalu BI, Cho P, Shakir AM, Agumadu UH, Rozin L, Kuller LH, Wecth CH. Suicides following bariatric surgery for the treatment of obesity. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 2005 Jul-Aug;1(4):447-449.
  • Omalu BI, Macurdy KM, Koehler ST, Nnebe-Agumadu UH, Shakir A, Rozin L, Wecht CH. Forensic pathology and forensic epidemiology of suicides in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: a ten year retrospective review (1990 – 1999). Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology. June 2005;1(2):125-138. 
  • Omalu BI, Mancuso JA, Cho P, Wecth CH. Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in an exhumed decomposed brain after twenty months of burial in a deep grave, The Journal of Forensic Sciences. November 2005;1453-1458.
  • Lindner JL, Omalu BI, Buhari A, Shakir A, Rozin L, Wecht CH. Nursing home deaths which fall under the jurisdiction of the coroner: an 11-year retrospective study. Am J Forensic Med Pathol 2007; 28: 292–298. 
  • Omalu BI, DeKosky ST, Hamilton RL, Minster RL, Kamboh I, Wecht CH. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player. Neurosurgery. May 2006;58(5):E1003
  • Omalu BI, DeKosky ST, Hamilton RL, Minster RL, Kamboh I, Shakir A, Wecht CH. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a national football league player: part II. Neurosurgery. 2006 Nov;59(5):1086-1092. 
  • Omalu BI, Ives DG, Buhari AM, Lindner JL, Schauer PR, Wecht CH, Kuller LH. Death rates and causes of death following bariatric surgery for Pennsylvania residents, 1995 to 2004. Arch Surg 2007;142(10):923-928. 
  • Omalu BI, Lindner JL, Janssen JK, Nnebe-Agumadu U, Weedn V. The role of environmental factors in the causation of sudden death in infants: two cases of sudden unexpected death in two unrelated infants who were cared for by the same babysitter. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2007, November; 52(6). 
  • Omalu BI, Shakir AM, Lindner JL, Tayur SR. Forecasting as an operations management tool in a medical examiner’s office. Journal of Health Management, Vol. 9, No. 1, 75-84 (2007)
  • Omalu BI, Lindner JL, Parwani AV, Balani J, Shakir A, Ness RB. Is there an association between coronary atherosclerosis and carcinoma of the prostate in men aged 50 years and older? An autopsy and coroner based post-mortem study. Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice, January-March 2013, 16(1). 
  • Omalu BI, Bailes J, Hammers J, Fitzsimmons, RP. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, suicides and parasuicides in professional American athletes: the role of the forensic pathologists. Am J Forensic Med Pathol Volume 31, Number 1, March 2010. 
  • Omalu BI, Hammers J, DiAngelo C, Moore S, Luckasevic T. Autopsy features of sudden death due to isolated eosinophilic coronary arteritis: report of two cases and review of literature. J Forensic Nurs. 2011 Sep;7(3):153-6.
  • Omalu B. Pathophysiological nervous system consequences of conducted electrical devices and sudden, unexpected death. J Forensic Nurs. 2011 Mar;7(1):51-3
  • Tindle HA, Omalu B, Courcoulas A, Marcus M, Hammers J, Kuller LH. Risk of suicide after long-term follow-up from bariatric surgery. Am J Med. Nov;123(11):1036-1042.
  • Omalu B, Bailes J, Hamilton RL, Kamboh MI, Hammers J, Case M, Fitzsimmons R. Emerging Histomorphologic Phenotypes of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy [CTE] in American Athletes. Neurosurgery. 2011 Jul;69(1):173-83; discussion 183.
  • Omalu B, Hammers J, Bailes J, Hamilton RL, Kamboh MI, Webster G, Fitzsimmons R. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in an Iraqi war veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder who committed suicide. Neurosurgical Focus 31 (5): E3, 2011. 
  • Omalu B, Hammers J, Luckasevic T. Diagnosis of hemorrhagic stroke in an exhumed brain after three years of burial in a deep grave. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 2012;57(6):1665-8. 
  • Small GW, Kepe V, Siddarth P, Ercoli LM, Merrill DA, Donoghue N, Bookheimer SY, Martinez J, Omalu B, Bailes J, Barrio JR. PET scanning of brain tau in retired National Football League players: preliminary findings. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2013;21(2):138-44. 
  • Turner RC, Lucke-Wold BP, Robson MJ, Omalu BI, Petraglia AL, Bailes JE. Repetitive traumatic brain injury and development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a potential role for biomarkers in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment? Frontiers in Neurology. 2012;3:186
  • Bailes J, Petraglia A, Omalu B, Nauman E, Talavage T. The role of subconcussion in repetitive mild traumatic brain injury. J Neurosurg. 2013; 119(5): 1235-45. 
  • Omalu B. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Prog Neurol Surg. 2014;28:38-49. 
  • Lucke-Wold BP, Turner RC, Logsdon AF, Nguyen L, Bailes JE, Lee JM, Robson MJ, Omalu BI, Huber JD, Rosen CL. Endoplasmic reticulum stress implicated in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. J Neurosurg. 2015 Sep 18:1-16. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Barrio JR, Small GW, Wong KP, Huang SC, Liu J, Merrill DA, Giza CC, Fitzsimmons RP, Omalu B, Bailes J, Kepe V. In vivo characterization of chronic traumatic encephalopathy using [F-18]FDDNP PET brain imaging. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Apr 21;112(16):E2039-47. Epub 2015 Apr 6. Erratum in: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Jun 2;112(22):E2981. 
  • Raji CA, Merrill DA, Barrio JR, Omalu B, Small GW. Progressive Focal Gray Matter Volume Loss in a Former High School Football Player: A Possible Magnetic Resonance Imaging Volumetric Signature for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2016, 24:10; 784-790. 
  • Omalu B, Small GW, Bailes J, Ercoli LM, Merrill DA, Wong, K, Huang S, Satyamurthy N, Hammers JL, Lee J, Fitzsimmons RP, Barrio JR. Postmortem autopsy confirmation of antemortem [F-18]FDDNP-PET scans in a football player with chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Neurosurgery, November 10, 2017. E-published. 
  • Lucke-Wold B, Seidel K, Udo R, Omalu B, Ornstein M, Nolan R, Rosen C, Ross J. Role of Tau Acetylation in Alzheimer’s Disease and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: The Way Forward for Successful Treatment. J Neurol Neurosurg. 2017;4(2). Epub 2017 Dec 7.
  • Pombo R, Johnson E, Gamboa A, Omalu B. Autopsy-proven Mirtazapine Withdrawal-induced Mania/Hypomania Associated with Sudden Death. J Pharmacol Pharmacother. 2017 Oct-Dec;8(4):185-187.
  • Chen ST, Siddarth P, Merrill DA, Martinez J, Emerson ND, Liu J, Wong K, Satyamurthy N, Giza CC, Huang S, Fitzsimmons RP, Bailes J, Omalu B,  Barrio JR, Small GW. FDDNP-PET Tau Brain Protein Binding Patterns in Military Personnel with Suspected Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 2018 65(1):79-88. 
  • Nassir Ghaemi S, Mauer S, Omalu BI. Lithium treatment for chronic traumatic encephalopathy: A proposal. Bipolar Disord. 2019 Feb 12. doi: 10.1111/bdi.12757.
  • Omalu B, Diu S, Paudel N, Parson SJ, Hammers JL. Autopsy Cardiac Troponin I Plasma Levels Can Be Elevated in Myocardial Infarction Type 3: A Proposal to Modify the Definition of Myocardial Infarction Type 3. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2021 Jan 19. doi: 10.1097/PAF.0000000000000662. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33491951.
  • Omalu, Bennet MD, MBA, MPH; Hammers, Jennifer DO Letter: Recommendation to Create New Neuropathologic Guidelines for the Post-Mortem Diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Neurosurgery: July 2021 – Volume 89 – Issue 1 – p E97-E98 doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyab138
  • Omalu, Bennet MD, MBA, MPH*; Hammers, Jennifer DO‡ In Reply: Recommendation to Create New Neuropathologic Guidelines for the Postmortem Diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Neurosurgery: January 2022 – Volume 90 – Issue 1 – p e21-e23 doi: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000001768
  • Omalu B, Hammers J. Letter: Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome [TES] Is Not Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy [CTE]: CTE Is Only a Subtype of TES. Neurosurgery. 2021 Aug 16;89(3):E205-E206. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyab231. PMID: 34271585.
  • Shergill A, Conner P, Wilson M, Omalu B. Accuracy and validity of determined cause of death and manner of death following forensic autopsy prosection. J Clin Pathol. 2023 Jun 12:jcp-2023-208876. doi: 10.1136/jcp-2023-208876. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37308286.