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Recent Publications


C Imray, A Grieve, S Dhillon, the Caudwell Xtreme Everest Research Group. Cold damage to the extremities: frostbite and non-freezing cold injuries.
Postgraduate Medical Journal 2009; 85:481-488.

Perry J, Balasubramanian S, Imray C. Systemic capillary leak syndrome resulting in compartment syndrome and the requirement for a surgical airway. Anaesthesia. 2009 Jun;64(6):679-82.

Higgins R, Lowe D, Hathaway M, Lam F, Kashi H, Tan LC, Imray C, Fletcher S, Chen K, Krishnan N, Hamer R, Zehnder D, Briggs D. Rises and falls in donor-specific and third-party HLA antibody levels after antibody incompatible transplantation. Transplantation. 2009 Mar 27;87(6):882-8.

Wilson MH, Newman S, Imray CH. The cerebral effects of ascent to high altitudes. Lancet Neurol. 2009 Feb;8(2):175-91.

Grocott MP, Martin DS, Levett DZ, McMorrow R, Windsor J, Montgomery HE; Caudwell Xtreme Everest Research Group. Arterial blood gases and oxygen content in climbers on Mount Everest.N Engl J Med. 2009 Jan 8;360(2):140-9.

Wilson MH, Edsell M, Imray C, Wright A; Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society. Changes in pupil dynamics at high altitude--an observational study using a handheld pupillometer. High Alt Med Biol. 2008 Winter;9(4):319-25.

Firth PG, Zheng H, Windsor JS, Sutherland AI, Imray CH, Moore GW, Semple JL, Roach RC, Salisbury RA. Mortality on Mount Everest, 1921-2006: descriptive study.BMJ. 2008 Dec 11;337:a2654. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a2654.

SD Myers, BM Biccard, CW Chan, CHE Imray, AD Wright, KTS Pattinson. Delayed acclimatization of the ventilatory threshold in healthy trekkers.Wilderness Environ Med. 2008 Fall;19(3):199-204.

Krishnan NS, Fleetwood P, Higgins RM, Hathaway M, Zehnder D, Mitchell D, Hamer R, Fletcher S, Lam FT, Kashi H, Tan LC, Imray C, Briggs D. Application of flow cytometry to monitor antibody levels in ABO incompatible kidney transplantation. Transplantation. 2008 Aug 15;86(3):474-7.

Myers SD, Biccard BM, Chan C, Imray CH, Wright AD, Pattinson KT; Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society. Delayed acclimatization of the ventilatory threshold in healthy trekkers. Wilderness Environ Med. 2008 Summer;19(2):124-8.

van Dellen D, Tiivas CAS, K Jarvi, Marshall C, Higman DJ, Imray CHE. Transcranial doppler directed intravenous glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonist therapy to control transient cerebral microemboli. British Journal of Surgery 2008 Jun;95(6):709-13.

AD Wright, SP Brearey, CHE Imray. High Hopes at High Altitudes. Parmacotherapy for acute mountain sickness and high altitude cerebral and pulmonary oedema.Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy 2008 Jan;9(1):119-127

R Higgins, M Hathaway, D Lowe, FT Lam, H Kashi, LC Tan, CHE Imray, S Fletcher, D Zender, K Chen, N Krishnan, R Hamer, D Briggs. Blood levels of donor-specific human leukocyte antigen antibodies after renal transplantation: Resolution of rejection in the prescence of circulating donor-specific antibody. Transplantation, 2007: 84; 876-84

Lip GY, Barnett H, Bradbury A, Cappuccio FP, Gill PS, Hughes E, Imray CHE, Jolly K, Patel K. Ethnicity and cardiovascular disease prevention in the United Kingdom: a practical approach to management. Journal of Human Hypertension. 2007; 21(3):183-211.

CHE Imray. Ultra-early doppler sonography for stroke.
Lancet Neurology. 2006;5(10): 806-8.

E-correspondence: Chris Imray, Patrick Doyle, Mark Wilson, Paul Gunning, Jon Morgan, Denny Levett, Kay Mitchell, Chris van Tulleken, Mike Stroud, Mike Grocott, Hugh Montgomery. Substrate depletion in locoregional carotid surgery? British Journal of Anaesthesia online (submitted from Cho Oyu Base Camp 2006)
http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/eletters/95/2/274#1187

Nature News Blog:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/reports_from_the_field/everest_expedition/

http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2007/05/everest_the_south_col_and_beyo.html#more

CHE Imray
If you only take one book…
Lancet Neurology, 2007; 6(9): 763

Book Chapter: Chris Imray. High Altitude Medicine. Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (In press)

CHE Imray, Oakley EH.
Cold still kills: cold-related illnesses in military practice freezing and non-freezing cold injury.
J R Army Med Corps. 2006; 152: 218-22.

Wolff CB, Richardson N, A Kuttler, Kemp O, Imray CHE.
Near infra-red spectroscopy and arterial extraction at altitude.
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 2007; 599:183-9
Imray CHE

Managing an abdominal aortic aneurysm
Practical Cardiovascular Risk Management. 2006; 4(2): 9-11.
Imray CHE, Pattinson KT.
Potential Role for TCD-Directed Antiplatelet Agents in Symptomatic Carotid Artery Dissection.
Stroke. Epress2006 Jan 26, and 2006 Mar; 37(3):767.

Pattinson KT, Imray CHE.
Transcranial Doppler and carotid artery disease strokes: more than just risk stratification.
Stroke. 2005 ;36 (11):2340-1.

Imray CHE, Higman DJ, Marshall C.
Dual antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel and aspirin in symptomatic cardiac stenosis evaluated using doppler embolic signal detection: the Clopidogrel and Aspirin for Reduction of Emboli in Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis (CARESS) trial
Circulation. 2005;112 (20):e325.

CHE Imray, Oakley EH.
Cold still kills: cold-related illnesses in military practice freezing and non-freezing cold injury.
J R Army Med Corps. 2006; 152: 218-22.

Wolff CB, Richardson N, A Kuttler, Kemp O, Imray CHE.
Near infra-red spectroscopy and arterial extraction at altitude.
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. In press 2006.

Imray CHE
Managing an abdominal aortic aneurysm
Practical Cardiovascular Risk Management. 2006; 4(2): 9-11.

Imray CHE, Pattinson KT.
Potential Role for TCD-Directed Antiplatelet Agents in Symptomatic Carotid Artery Dissection.
Stroke. Epress2006 Jan 26, and 2006 Mar;37(3):767.

Pattinson KT, Imray CHE.
Transcranial Doppler and carotid artery disease strokes: more than just risk stratification.
Stroke. 2005 ;36 (11):2340-1.

Imray CHE, Higman DJ, Marshall C.
Dual antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel and aspirin in symptomatic cardiac stenosis evaluated using doppler embolic signal detection: the Clopidogrel and Aspirin for Reduction of Emboli in Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis (CARESS) trial
Circulation. 2005;112 (20):e325.

Imray CHE, A Thacker, M Mead.
Oxygen administration can reverse neurological deficit following carotid cross-clamp.
British Journal of Anaesthesia 2005; 95(2): 274-5

CHE Imray, C Tiivas
Are some strokes preventable? A potential role for transcranial Doppler in TIAs of carotid origin.
Lancet Neurology 2005; 4(9): 580-6

Joseph T, Kandiyil N, Beale D, Tiivas C, Imray CHE
A novel treatment for symptomatic carotid dissection.
Postgraduate Medical Journal 2005; 81(958) : e6.

K Pattinson, Wynne Jones, CHE Imray
Monitoring of cerebral perfusion and metabolism.
Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain. 2005; 5(4):130-133

K Pattinson, CHE Imray, AD Wright.
What does cerebral oximetry measure.
British Journal of Anaesthesia 2005; 94(6): 863-4

C.H.E Imray, S. D. Myers, K.T.S. Pattinson, A.R. Bradwell, C. W. Chan, S.Harris, P.Collins, A.D.Wright & the Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society
Effect of exercise on cerebral perfusion in humans at high altitude
Journal of Applied Physiology 2005; 99(2): 699-706

CWM Chan, H Hoar, K Pattinson, AR Bradwell, AD Wright, CHE Imray & Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society.
The effect of sildenafil (Viagra) and acclimatization on cerebral oxygenation at altitude
Clinical Science. 2005; 109(3): 319-24

K Pattinson, CHE Imray
Another double tails-up capnography trace.
Anaesthesia 2005; 65: 97-98

K Pattinson, CHE Imray
Adolescents at altitude
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 2005; 16: 60

Johnson BG, Wright AD, Beazley MF, Harvey TC, Hillenbrand P, Imray CHE and Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society.
The sharpened Romberg test for assessing ataxia in mild acute mountain sickness.
Wilderness Environ Med. 2005; 6(2):62-6

BG Johnson, J Simmons, AD Wright, P Hillenbrand, MF Beazley, I Sutton, CHE Imray
Ataxia at altitude measued on a wobble board.
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 2005; 16: 42-46

CHE Imray
Vascular Surgical Networks: the Coventry &Warwickshire County Vascular Unit Experience
Mercian Vascular Forum. 2004: 5: 19-20.

Agaba AE, Hardiment K, Burch N, Imray CHE.
An audit of vascular surgical intervention for complications of angiography in 2324 patients from a single centre.
Annals of Vascular Surgery. 2004; 18(4): 470-473

Imray CHE, Kennedy CH, Pattinson K, Brearey S, Wright A & Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society.
Acute mountain sickness in adolescents: A pilot study.
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 2004; 15(3): 202-206.

CHE Imray, D Hillebrandt
Telemedicine and frostbite injuries
British Medical Journal 2004; 328:1210

Imray CHE, Higman DJ, Tiivas C.
Timing of surgery in symptomatic carotid disease.
Lancet 2004; 363(9420):1553-4.

Pattinson K, Clutton-Brock T, Imray CHE.
Validity of near-infrared cerebral spectroscopy.
Anaesthesia. 2004; 59(5):507-8

Wright AD, Beazley MF, Bradwell AR, Chesner IM, Clayton RN, Forster PJ, Hillenbrand P, Imray CHE & Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society.
Progesterone at high altitude and in the prevention of acute mountain sickness.
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 2004 Spring;15(1):25-31

CHE Imray, K Pattinson
Surgery for carotid artery stenosis:
Patients with critical stenoses should be admitted to stroke prevention units.
British Medical Journal. 2004; 329(7478):1344.

Lennard NS, Vijayasekar C, Tiivas C, Chan CW, Higman DJ, Imray CHE
Crescendo TIAs: The use of pre-operative TCD directed I.V. Dextran therapy to control symptoms and emboli prior to elective carotid endarterectomy.
British Journal of Surgery 2003; 90: 166-170.
Sol Cohen Prize Winner, Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Imray CHE, Walsh S, Clarke T, Tiivas C, Hoar H, Harvey TC, Chan CW, Forster PJ, Bradwell AR, Wright AD & Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society.
The effect of supplementary carbon dioxide, oxygen, and a mix of carbon dioxide and oxygen on arterial blood gases and on peripheral, muscle and cutaneous oxygenation at 150m and 3459m.
Clinical Science 2003; 104:1-8.

CHE Imray, CW Chan, AD Wright
Perfusion cerebrale en haute altitude (High Altitude Cerebral Perfusion).
‘Sang, Thrombose, Vaisseaux’ (Blood, thrombosis, vessels) 2003; 15: 17-27.

C Wolff, CHE Imray
Partitioning of arterial and venous volumes in the brain under hypoxic conditions.
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 2003; 540: 19-23.

Carbon dioxide contributes to the beneficial effect of pressurisation in a portable hyperbaric chamber.
CHE Imray, S Brearey, T Clarke, S Walsh, J Morgan, AD Wright.
Clinical Science; 100: 151-157: 2001.

Cerebral oxygen at high altitude and the response to carbon dioxide, hyperventilation and oxygen.
CHE Imray, S Brearey, T Clarke, S Walsh, J Morgan, AD Wright.
Clinical Science 2000; 98:159-164

Carotid surgery under local anaesthetic: The Walsgrave experience.
CHE Imray, CJ Knickenberg and CWM Chan.
The Mercian Vascular and Endovascular Forum. Autumn 2000 1; 7-8.

Carotid endarterectomy.
C Bick and CHE Imray.
Nursing Standard 2000; 16 (3): 47-53.

Near-infra red cerebral spectroscopic monitoring of patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy under loco-regional anaesthesia.
D Williams, P Laws, CHE Imray, S Lambert, P Horrocks.
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 1999:81; 431-432.

Patellar tendon bearing orthosis- application as adjunctive treatment in healing lower limb tissue loss.
HS Khaira, T Coddington, A Drew, PN Roberts, CHE Imray
European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 1998; 16: 485-488.

Near-infrared spectroscopy in the assessment of cerebral oxygen at high altitude.
CHE Imray, NJ Barnett, S Walsh, T Clarke, J Morgan, D Hale, H Hoar, D Mole, I Chesner, AD Wright.
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 1998; 9: 198-203

Monitors of cerebral oxygenation. C Imray, C Knickenberg. Anaesthesia 1997; 52: 805.

Intracranial pressure at high altitude and acute mountain sickness.
AD Wright, CHE Imray, MSC Morrisey, RJ Marchbanks and AR Bradwell
Clinical Science 1995; 89: 201-204.

Unconjugated faecal bile acids in familial adenomatous polyposis analysed by gas-liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
GM Barker, S Radley, ADavis, CHE Imray, KDR Setchell, N O'Connell, IA Donovan, MRB Keighley and JP Neoptolemos.
British Journal of Surgery 1994; 84: 739-742.

Duodenal bile acid profiles in patients with colorectal cancer or polyps.
S Radley, CHE Imray, A Davis, CW Hendrickse, IA Donovan, AM Lawson, PR Baker, JP Neoptolemos.
European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology 1993, 5: 721 729.

Bilary bile acid profiles in familial adenomatous polyposis.
S Radley, A Davis, CHE Imray, G Barker, Morton DG, PR Baker, JP Neoptolemos
British Journal of Surgery 1992; 79(1): 89-90

Induction of cholangiocarcinoma in the golden Syrian hamster using methylazoxymethyl acetate.
CHE Imray, KM Newbold, A Davis, M Lavelle Jones,
JP Neoptolemos.
European Journal of Surgical Oncology
1992; 18: 373 378

Comparability of hamster and human faecal unconjugated bile
acid in a colonic cancer model using intrarectal instillations
of N methyl n nitroso n nitro guanidine.
CHE Imray, T Minoura, A Davis, S Radley, KM Newbold, M Lavelle Jones, AM Lawson, PR Baker, JP Neoptolemos.
Anti Cancer Research 1992 12:553 558.

Faecal bile acid profiles in patients with colorectal cancer or
polyps.
CHE Imray, S Radley, A Davis, C Hendrickse, A Lawson, PR Baker,
I Donovan, JP Neoptolemos.
Gut 1992; 33: 1239 1245.

Acetazolamide and high altitude disease.
AR Bradwell, A Wright, M Winterborn, and CHE Imray.
International Journal of Sports Medicine 1992: 13 S63 S64.

Gas liquid chromatography (GLC) analysis of hamster conjugated bilary bile acids.
Davis AE, C Imray, T Minorura, M Winslett, PR Baker, JP Neoptolemos.
Transactions of the Biochemical Society
19: 174S, 1991

Biliary acute pancreatitis.
M Winslet, C Imray, JP Neoptolemos.
Hepato gastroenterology, 1991; 38: 120 123

Arachidonic acid and docosahexanoic acid are increased in human
colorectal cancer.
JP Neoptolemos, N Husband, C Imray, S Rowley, N Lawson.
Gut 1991 32: 278 281

Influence of total colectomy on secondary bile acid metabolism.
M Winslet, V Poxon, C Imray, R Owen, MRB Keighley.
Transactions of the Biochemical Society
1991; 19: 226S.

Gas liquid chromatography (GLC) analysis of hamster faecal and biliary bile acids.
C Imray, T Minorura, A Davis, M Winslett, PR Baker, MRB Keighley, JP Neoptolemos.
Transactions of the Biochemical Society
1991; 19: 171S.

Improved human faecal bile acid extraction.
C Imray, A Davis, G Barker, S Radley, C Hendrickse, PR Baker, JP Neoptolemos.
Transactions of the Biochemical Society
1991; 19: 201S.

Changes in serum lipids after exercise and on exposure to altitude.
C Imray, M Billington, J Milles, A Wright, R Filer, AR
Bradwell, JP Neoptolemos.
Transactions of the Biochemical Society
1991; 19: 135 S.

Duodenal gallbladder bile acid profiles in patients with colorectal cancer and polyps.
S Radley, CHE Imray, A. Davis, C. Hendrickse, A Lawson, PR Baker, I. Donovan, and JP Neoptolemos.
British Journal of Surgery 1991 78: 1497

Philosphers and stones in acute pancreatitis.
JP Neoptolemos, C Imray, C Hall.
Digestive Diseases 1990: 8: 354 360.

Effects of N 3 and saturated fats on growth rates on human colonic cancer cell lines
SW 620 and LS174T in vivo in relation to tissue and plasma lipids.
M Sakaguchi, C Imray, A Davis, S Rowley, C Jones, N Lawson, MRB Keighley, PR Baker, JP Neoptolemos.
Anticancer Research, 1990 10: 1763 1768.

Reduced tumour growth of the human colonic cancer cell lines colo 320 and HT 29 in vivo by dietary N 3 lipids.
M Sakaguchi, S Rowley, N Kane, C Imray, A Davis, C Jones, M Newbold, MRB Keighley, PR Baker, JP Neoptolemos.
British Journal of Cancer, 1990 62:742 747

The effect of aortic cross clamping on plasma fibrinectin.
JT Powell, KR Poskitt, C Imray, M Khong, C N McCollum.
Journal of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis,
1478: 249, 1985.

Fibrinectin consumption in aortic surgery.
JT Powell, KR Poskitt, C Imray, M Khong, C N McCollum.
Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
1985, 26: 85, 1985.

Ovine fetal monitoring using implanted telemetry a preliminary trial.
L Bowman, AJ Ford, JP Claude, G Carson, C Imray, JD Meindl.
Biotelemetry VIII, 1985

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