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Robert J. O. Davies's Degrees
- PhD Biomedical Engineering University of Oxford
- Masters Biomedical Engineering University of Oxford
- Bachelors Biomedical Engineering University of Oxford
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- Ambulatory blood pressure after therapeutic and subtherapeutic nasal continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised parallel trial (2002) (1015)
- Comparison of therapeutic and subtherapeutic nasal continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised prospective parallel trial (1999) (788)
- U.K. Controlled trial of intrapleural streptokinase for pleural infection. (2005) (737)
- Effect of an indwelling pleural catheter vs chest tube and talc pleurodesis for relieving dyspnea in patients with malignant pleural effusion: the TIME2 randomized controlled trial. (2012) (517)
- The relationship between neck circumference, radiographic pharyngeal anatomy, and the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. (1990) (508)
- Neck circumference and other clinical features in the diagnosis of the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. (1992) (507)
- A Mal functional variant is associated with protection against invasive pneumococcal disease, bacteremia, malaria and tuberculosis (2007) (494)
- Management of pleural infection in adults: British Thoracic Society pleural disease guideline 2010 (2010) (464)
- A randomized controlled trial of adaptive ventilation for Cheyne-Stokes breathing in heart failure. (2003) (337)
- Circulating cardiovascular risk factors in obstructive sleep apnoea: data from randomised controlled trials (2004) (326)
- Arterial blood pressure responses to graded transient arousal from sleep in normal humans. (1993) (323)
- Local anaesthetic thoracoscopy: British Thoracic Society pleural disease guideline 2010 (2010) (311)
- The bacteriology of pleural infection by genetic and standard methods and its mortality significance. (2006) (305)
- Intrapleural use of tissue plasminogen activator and DNase in pleural infection. (2011) (267)
- CD56bright NK Cells Are Enriched at Inflammatory Sites and Can Engage with Monocytes in a Reciprocal Program of Activation1 (2004) (264)
- Case-control study of 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea and normal matched control subjects (2000) (261)
- Randomized trials describing lung inflammation after pleurodesis with talc of varying particle size. (2004) (246)
- Sleep · 1: Obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome: definitions, epidemiology, and natural history (2004) (223)
- A behavioural test to assess daytime sleepiness in obstructive sleep apnoea (1997) (203)
- Continuous positive airway pressure devices for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea syndrome: a systematic review and economic analysis. (2009) (202)
- Continuous positive airway pressure improves sleepiness but not calculated vascular risk in patients with minimally symptomatic obstructive sleep apnoea: the MOSAIC randomised controlled trial (2012) (202)
- Sleep fragmentation indices as predictors of daytime sleepiness and nCPAP response in obstructive sleep apnea. (1998) (201)
- Randomised prospective parallel trial of therapeutic versus subtherapeutic nasal continuous positive airway pressure on simulated steering performance in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (2000) (200)
- CPAP and measures of cardiovascular risk in males with OSAS (2008) (196)
- Pleurodesis practice for malignant pleural effusions in five English-speaking countries: survey of pulmonologists. (2003) (190)
- The relationship between chest tube size and clinical outcome in pleural infection. (2010) (181)
- Health status in obstructive sleep apnea: relationship with sleep fragmentation and daytine sleepiness, and effects of continuous positive airway pressure treatment. (1999) (175)
- Continuous positive airway pressure in older people with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (PREDICT): a 12-month, multicentre, randomised trial. (2014) (175)
- Ex vivo characterization of early secretory antigenic target 6-specific T cells at sites of active disease in pleural tuberculosis. (2005) (175)
- Endothelial function and arterial stiffness in minimally symptomatic obstructive sleep apnea. (2008) (162)
- A systematic review of continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea syndrome. (2009) (155)
- Effect of Opioids vs NSAIDs and Larger vs Smaller Chest Tube Size on Pain Control and Pleurodesis Efficacy Among Patients With Malignant Pleural Effusion: The TIME1 Randomized Clinical Trial. (2015) (150)
- Effects of continuous positive airway pressure on systemic inflammation in patients with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised controlled trial (2008) (148)
- Effects of continuous positive airway pressure on quality of life in patients with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea: data from a randomized controlled trial. (2008) (136)
- Periodic movements of the legs during sleep associated with rises in systemic blood pressure. (1991) (136)
- Nasal continuous positive airway pressure in chronic heart failure with sleep-disordered breathing. (1993) (135)
- The acute effects of continuous positive airway pressure and oxygen administration on blood pressure during obstructive sleep apnea. (1992) (134)
- Blood culture bottle culture of pleural fluid in pleural infection (2011) (130)
- The epidemiology of sleep apnoea. (1996) (127)
- Safety and immunogenicity of a new tuberculosis vaccine, MVA85A, in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected individuals. (2009) (125)
- Sleep · 6: Obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome and hypertension (2004) (113)
- Automatic nasal continuous positive airway pressure titration in the laboratory: patient outcomes. (1997) (111)
- Effect of measuring ambulatory blood pressure on sleep and on blood pressure during sleep (1994) (106)
- Comparison of the effects of sleep deprivation, alcohol and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) on simulated steering performance. (2001) (105)
- Advanced techniques in medical thoracoscopy (2006) (105)
- Clinical impact and reliability of pleural fluid mesothelin in undiagnosed pleural effusions. (2009) (99)
- Outcome of patients with nonspecific pleuritis/fibrosis on thoracoscopic pleural biopsies. (2010) (99)
- Clinically important factors influencing the diagnostic measurement of pleural fluid pH and glucose. (2008) (97)
- Steering simulation performance in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea and matched control subjects. (2000) (96)
- Deficiency of a subset of T-cells with immunoregulatory properties in sarcoidosis (2005) (92)
- Lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis associated with common variable hypogammaglobulinaemia treated with cyclosporin A (2000) (90)
- Is more NCPAP better? (2000) (79)
- Case control study of cerebrovascular damage defined by magnetic resonance imaging in patients with OSA and normal matched control subjects. (2001) (79)
- Pleural effusion: a structured approach to care. (2004) (77)
- Diagnostically significant variations in pleural fluid pH in loculated parapneumonic effusions. (2004) (76)
- Dyspnea-Related Cues Engage the Prefrontal Cortex (2015) (76)
- Catheter-tract metastases associated with chronic indwelling pleural catheters. (2007) (73)
- Diagnostic accuracy, safety and utilisation of respiratory physician-delivered thoracic ultrasound (2010) (70)
- Use of indwelling pleural catheters for chronic pleural infection. (2008) (69)
- Identification of sleep disruption and sleep disordered breathing from the systolic blood pressure profile. (1993) (68)
- Systemic hypertension and obstructive sleep apnoea. (2002) (67)
- PTPN22 and invasive bacterial disease (2006) (63)
- The management of pleural space infections (2004) (62)
- Sleep apnea and hypertension--what a mess! (1997) (61)
- Non-invasive beat to beat arterial blood pressure during non-REM sleep in obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring. (1994) (58)
- Continuous positive airway pressure treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea reduces resting heart rate but does not affect dysrhythmias: a randomised controlled trial (2009) (58)
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure and Liver Enzymes in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: Data from a Randomized Controlled Trial (2008) (55)
- Chemotherapy should not be withheld from patients with an indwelling pleural catheter for malignant pleural effusion (2010) (53)
- Functional polymorphisms in the FCN2 gene are not associated with invasive pneumococcal disease. (2007) (50)
- Recent advances in parapneumonic effusion and empyema (2004) (50)
- A multicentre randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of continuous positive airway pressure for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome in older people: PREDICT. (2015) (46)
- Pseudochylothorax without pleural thickening: time to reconsider pathogenesis? (2009) (46)
- CARD 15 gene mutations in sarcoidosis (2005) (44)
- Variation in the arousal pattern after obstructive events in obstructive sleep apnea. (1999) (41)
- Characterization of a new mouse model of empyema and the mechanisms of pleural invasion by Streptococcus pneumoniae. (2012) (40)
- An economic analysis of continuous positive airway pressure for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (2009) (40)
- Sleep apnoea and hypertension: proof at last? (2001) (39)
- IkappaB genetic polymorphisms and invasive pneumococcal disease. (2007) (37)
- NFKBIZ polymorphisms and susceptibility to pneumococcal disease in European and African populations (2010) (35)
- The efficacy of nasal continuous positive airway pressure in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is proven. (2000) (34)
- The approach to the patient with a parapneumonic effusion. (2006) (33)
- Pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusions: current controversies and variations in practices (2004) (32)
- Use of lipoteichoic acid-T for pleurodesis in malignant pleural effusion: a phase I toxicity and dose-escalation study. (2008) (32)
- Long-term benefits in self-reported health status of nasal continuous positive airway pressure therapy for obstructive sleep apnoea. (2001) (32)
- Needle-track metastases and prophylactic radiotherapy for mesothelioma. (2006) (31)
- Controlling the Lungs Via the Brain: A Novel Neurosurgical Method to Improve Lung Function in Humans (2012) (27)
- Pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion: talc, toxicity and where next? (2008) (27)
- Ability of Procalcitonin to Discriminate Infection from Non-Infective Inflammation Using Two Pleural Disease Settings (2012) (26)
- New approaches to monitoring sleep-related breathing disorders. (1996) (25)
- Effusions from infections: parapneumonic effusions and empyema (2008) (25)
- Androgen and oestrogen receptor status of the human appendix testis (2003) (25)
- The approach to the patient with a parapneumonic effusion. (2010) (24)
- What is an arousal and how should it be quantified? (1997) (22)
- Which derivative from overnight oximetry best predicts symptomatic response to nasal continuous positive airway pressure in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea? (2000) (22)
- Second by second patterns in cortical electroencephalograph and systolic blood pressure during Cheyne-Stokes. (1999) (21)
- Cardiovascular aspects of obstructive sleep apnoea and their relevance to the assessment of the efficacy of nasal continuous positive airway pressure therapy (1998) (20)
- Sleep studies for sleep apnoea. (2002) (19)
- Familial spontaneous pneumothorax and FBN1 mutations. (2004) (19)
- Common NFKBIL2 polymorphisms and susceptibility to pneumococcal disease: a genetic association study (2010) (19)
- Intrapleural streptokinase for pleural infection (2006) (18)
- Effects of short term high frequency negative pressure ventilation on gas exchange using the Hayek oscillator in normal subjects. (1995) (17)
- Effect of short term graded withdrawal of nasal continuous positive airway pressure on systemic blood pressure in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea. (1996) (17)
- The unacceptable face of evidence-based medicine. (1997) (15)
- Is it necessary to record sleep? (1996) (15)
- A case of empyema necessitatis. (2007) (14)
- Diagnosing pleural effusion: moving beyond transudate-exudate separation. (2007) (14)
- CT-guided biopsy for diagnosis of malignant disease in pleural effusions (2003) (13)
- Brain natriuretic peptide is unchanged after 4 weeks of continuous positive airway pressure therapy (2006) (12)
- PRIMARY RESULT OF THE SECOND MULTICENTRE INTRAPLEURAL SEPSIS (MIST2) TRIAL; RANDOMISED TRIAL OF INTRAPLEURAL TPA AND DNASE IN PLEURAL INFECTION (2010) (12)
- Acute effects of obstructive sleep apnoea. (1993) (12)
- Is (re)titration of nasal continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnoea necessary? (2001) (11)
- Pleural interventions: management of acute and chronic pneumothorax. (2008) (11)
- Cephalometric measurements in snorers, non-snorers, and patients with sleep apnoea. (1991) (10)
- Advances in the investigation and treatment of pleural effusions (2010) (9)
- Blood pressure change after treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) (2000) (8)
- Mannose-binding lectin genotypes: lack of association with susceptibility to thoracic empyema (2010) (8)
- Caffeine levels following treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea (2003) (7)
- Genetic Polymorphisms and Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (2007) (6)
- Diagnosis and Management of Infectious Pleural Effusion (2006) (6)
- A functional variant in TIRAP , also known as MAL , and protection against invasive pneumococcal disease , bacteraemia , malaria and tuberculosis (2009) (5)
- Empyema, lung abscess and necrotizing pneumonia (2006) (5)
- Obstructive sleep apnoea. Evidence for efficacy of continuous positive airways pressure is compelling. (1997) (5)
- Simplified Diagnostic Tests for Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Its Variants (2002) (4)
- Edinburgh Research Explorer Continuous positive airway pressure in older people with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (PREDICT) (2014) (4)
- Pneumocystis jirovecii in pleural infection: a nucleic acid amplification study (2010) (4)
- S13 The primary results of the MOSAIC trial: does CPAP for minimally symptomatic OSA reduce daytime sleepiness or calculated vascular risk? (2010) (4)
- Reproducibility and reliability of pleural fluid cytokine measurements (2009) (3)
- Relearning an old lesson: stopping trials early (2010) (3)
- Does Continuous Positive Airways Pressure (CPAP) For Minimally Symptomatic Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) Reduce Daytime Sleepiness? Primary Results From Mosaic, A Randomized Controlled Trial (2011) (2)
- I kappa B genetic polymorphisms and invasive pneurnococxal disease (2007) (2)
- P64 Course and variation of the intercostal artery by computed tomography (2010) (1)
- Simplified Diagnostic Tests for Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Its Variants (2002) (1)
- S14 CPAP improves endothelial function in minimally symptomatic OSA patients: results from the MOSAIC trial (2010) (1)
- Thoracoscopy for Parapneumonic Effusions and Empyema (2014) (1)
- The Clinical Role and Reliability of Pleural Fluid Mesothelin in Undiagnosed Pleural Effusions. (2009) (1)
- Activation of proteinase activated receptor-1 on mesothelial cells induces activation of transforming growth factor-beta via upregulation of thrombospondin-1 (2006) (1)
- Pseudochylothorax, an Unknown Disease: Response (2010) (1)
- Chemotherapy does not increase the risk of pleural infection in patients managed with an indwelling pleural catheter for malignant pleural effusion (2010) (0)
- Nocturnal ambulatory blood pressure measurement. (1994) (0)
- Sleep and the lung: current issues in nocturnal respiratory research. (1993) (0)
- Running head: IB genes and pneumococcal disease (2007) (0)
- Pleural effusions. (2004) (0)
- Detailed results of the model-based sensitivity analysis (2015) (0)
- Ambulatory blood pressure after sleep apnoea treatment (2002) (0)
- guideline 2010 British Thoracic Society pleural disease Management of pleural infection in adults (2010) (0)
- Nocturnal ambulatory blood pressure measurement Authors' reply (1994) (0)
- OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA (OSA) IS CHARACTER- IZED BY REPETITIVE APNEAS AND HYPOPNEAS DUR- ING SLEEP ASSOCIATED WITH OXYGEN DESATU- (2008) (0)
- An economic analysis of continuous positive airway pressure for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome—Corrigendum (2011) (0)
- Could Decortication Become Necessary in Cases of Pseudochylothorax?: Response (2010) (0)
- Activation Monocytes in a Reciprocal Program of Inflammatory Sites and Can Engage with NK Cells Are Enriched atbrightCD 56 (2004) (0)
- Monocytes in a Reciprocal Program of Inflammatory Sites and Can Engage with NK Cells Are Enriched at bright CD56 (2017) (0)
- OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNOEA. AUTHORS' REPLY (1999) (0)
- Statistical and health economic analysis plans (2015) (0)
- Fibroblast Growth Factor-9 Is Up-Regulated In Malignant Mesothelioma And May Be Involved In The Disease Pathobiology (2012) (0)
- Lymphocytic interstitial prieumonitis in common variable immunodeficiency disorders: A comparison with HIV (2007) (0)
- PREDICT investigators and memberships of committees (2015) (0)
- International Pleural Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 2 (2006) (0)
- Fibroblast Growth Factor-9 And Its Potential Biological Role In Malignant Mesothelioma (2011) (0)
- Occlusion and Malposition of Small-Bore Chest Tubes for Pleural Infection Response (2010) (0)
- Systematic review on the clinical effectiveness of continuous positive airway pressure (2015) (0)
- Appendix to the economic chapter (2015) (0)
- Empyema, Necrotizing Pneumonia and Lung Abscess (2005) (0)
- Course And Variability Of The Intercostal Artery By Computed Tomography (2011) (0)
- Pleural disease (excluding malignancy) (2004) (0)
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