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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