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  1. Peri-procedural cardiac arrest at medical thoracoscopy in a patient with pleural mesothelioma causing resultant heart failure and an intractable pleural effusion

    Article • Breathe, October 2025, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  2. Bilateral pleural effusions, ascites and pulmonary emboli: Meigs syndrome

    Article • Breathe, July 2025, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  3. CT Guided Biopsy—A Review of a Pleural Interventional Service with Regard to Pneumothorax Rates

    Article • Journal of Respiration, June 2025, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  4. A Diagnostic Approach to Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

    Article • Pulmonary Therapy, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    avinash aujayeb

  5. The Role of Surgery in Pleural Mesothelioma: A Journey through the Evidence, MARS 2 and Beyond

    Article • Pulmonary Therapy, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    avinash aujayeb

  6. Clinical Importance of Surgical Emphysema Post Local Anaesthetic Thoracoscopy—A Multi-Centre Review of Practice

    Article • March 2025, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  7. The 2023 British Thoracic Society Guideline for Pleural Disease Update on Malignant Pleural Effusion

    Article • Journal of Respiration, November 2024, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  8. Experiences of Physical Activity in Mesothelioma: A Qualitative Enquiry

    Article • Journal of Respiration, October 2024, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  9. Bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and accelerated nodulosis

    Article • Breathe, October 2024, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  10. Small cell lung cancer and neuroendocrine tumours

    Article • Breathe, October 2024, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  11. Diagnosis of Pleural Mesothelioma: Is Everything Solved at the Present Time?

    Article • Current Oncology, August 2024, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  12. Pulmonary complications of advanced chronic liver diseases: an updated review

    Article • July 2024, Open Exploration Publishing

    avinash aujayeb

  13. Exploring the efficacy and advancements of medical pleurodesis: a comprehensive review of current research

    Article • Breathe, June 2024, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  14. Use of medical thoracoscopy in managing pleural malignancy

    Article • Breathe, June 2024, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  15. Clinical characteristics of chylothorax: results from the International Collaborative Effusion database

    Article • ERJ Open Research, September 2023, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  16. Pneumothorax Trends from 2010–2020 from a Large-Volume Pleural Unit

    Article • Pulmonary Therapy, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    avinash aujayeb

  17. Small Cell Lung Cancer and Pleural Effusion: An Analysis from a District General Hospital

    Article • Pulmonary Therapy, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    avinash aujayeb

  18. Achieving Molecular Profiling in Pleural Biopsies

    Article • CHEST Journal, May 2023, Elsevier

    avinash aujayeb

  19. Day Case Local Anaesthetic Thoracoscopy: Experience from 2 District General Hospitals in the United Kingdom

    Article • Medical Sciences, March 2023, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  20. Investigation and outcomes in patients with nonspecific pleuritis: results from the International Collaborative Effusion database

    Article • ERJ Open Research, March 2023, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  21. Autologous Blood Patch Pleurodesis for Secondary Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Narrative Review, a Retrospective Case Series and State of Play in the UK

    Article • Pulmonary Therapy, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    avinash aujayeb

  22. Erector spinae plane blocks for day-case medical thoracoscopy: a pilot clinical study

    Article • Pleura and Peritoneum, November 2022, De Gruyter

    avinash aujayeb

  23. Local Anaesthetic Thoracoscopy for Pleural Effusion—A Narrative Review

    Article • Healthcare, October 2022, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  24. Cardiac-Device Implantation and Pneumothorax—A Symptom-Based Approach: Experience from a District General Hospital

    Article • Reports — Medical Cases Images and Videos, October 2022, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  25. Health and Lifestyle of Patients with Mesothelioma: Protocol for the Help-Meso Study

    Article • Journal of Respiration, August 2022, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  26. COVID-19 follow-up programmes across Europe: an ERS END-COVID CRC survey

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, July 2022, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  27. Hepatic Hydrothorax: A Narrative Review

    Article • Pulmonary Therapy, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    avinash aujayeb

  28. Risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in a multiethnic cohort of United Kingdom healthcare workers (UK-REACH): A cross-sectional analysis

    Article • PLoS Medicine, May 2022, PLOS

    avinash aujayeb

  29. Erratum: Born et al. Accelerating Detection of Lung Pathologies with Explainable Ultrasound Image Analysis. Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 672

    Article • Applied Sciences, April 2022, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  30. Increasing diagnostic yield at medical thoracoscopy

    Article • Respirology, April 2022, Wiley

    avinash aujayeb

  31. A Reminder of an Important Clinical Lesson: Hypoxaemia in a Pleural Effusion

    Article • Reports — Medical Cases Images and Videos, February 2022, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  32. Indwelling pleural catheters: evidence for and management

    Article • Postgraduate Medical Journal, January 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    avinash aujayeb

  33. Physician-Led Thoracic Trauma Management in a Specialist Emergency Care Centre

    Article • Journal of Clinical Medicine, December 2021, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  34. COVID-19 Mortality in Patients with a Ward-Based Ceiling of Care

    Article • Stresses, November 2021, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  35. Ethnic differences in SARS-CoV-2 vaccine hesitancy in United Kingdom healthcare workers: Results from the UK-REACH prospective nationwide cohort study

    Article • The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, October 2021, Elsevier

    avinash aujayeb

  36. Indwelling Peritoneal Catheter for Ascites Management in a UK District General Hospital: A Cohort Study

    Article • Healthcare, September 2021, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  37. Pneumothorax rates after CT guided biopsy: experience from a high volume cancer centre

    Article • September 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  38. A Qualitative Study Exploring the Impact and Effects Following Hospital Discharge of COVID-19

    Article • Journal of Respiration, September 2021, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  39. SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study

    Article • Anaesthesia, August 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Mahmoud A. Ebada, Francesco Di Marzo, Dr Ahmad Ozair, Justin Wormald, Dimitrios Magouliotis, Ronald Flumignan, Dr. Musbahu Sani Kurawa, Dr. Josep M Muñoz Vives, Professor Dr. Ashrarur Rahman Mitul, Vittoria Bellato, Dr Shameel Musthafa, MD Aleksandar Bogdanovic, Assia HAIF, Alfie J Kavalakat, Prof Marcello Migliore, Joshua Totty, Martin Karamanliev, Professor Gianluca Franceschini, Prof NDUBUISI ONYEMAECHI, Dr Rabea A Gadelkareem, Professor Calvin S.H. Ng, Professor Dr Osama Farouk, Prof. Dr. Mahmoud ElFiky, Marcos Perini, Aloy Okechukwu Ugwu, Dickon Hayne, Dr Ramesh P Menon, Prof. Dr. Alex Alfieri, Edward Caruana, avinash aujayeb, Roberto Colasanti, Dr. Luca Bertolaccini, Dr Ayrat R. Kaldarov , Dr Vin Shen Ban, Dr Fabio Martinelli

  40. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Adult Surgical Patients and Surgical Services

    Article • Annals of Surgery, August 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Edward Caruana, avinash aujayeb

  41. Effects of pre‐operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study

    Article • Anaesthesia, August 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Mahmoud A. Ebada, Francesco Di Marzo, Dr Ahmad Ozair, Justin Wormald, Dimitrios Magouliotis, Fernando Cordera, Ronald Flumignan, Dr. Musbahu Sani Kurawa, Vittoria Bellato, Dr Shameel Musthafa, MD Aleksandar Bogdanovic, Assia HAIF, Alfie J Kavalakat, funlayo odejinmi, Ademola Adeyeye , Joshua Totty, Professor Gianluca Franceschini, Prof NDUBUISI ONYEMAECHI, Dr Rabea A Gadelkareem, Professor Calvin S.H. Ng, Prof. Saleh S. Baeesa, Professor Dr Osama Farouk, Dr. Josep M Muñoz Vives, Prof. Dr. Mahmoud ElFiky, Marcos Perini, Dickon Hayne, Professor Dr. Ashrarur Rahman Mitul, Prof. Dr. Alex Alfieri, Edward Caruana, avinash aujayeb, Roberto Colasanti, Dr. Luca Bertolaccini, Dr Vin Shen Ban, Dr Fabio Martinelli

  42. COVID‐19 in hospitalized lung and non‐lung solid organ transplant recipients: A comparative analysis from a multicenter study

    Article • Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, July 2021, Wiley

    avinash aujayeb

  43. Ventilating the elderly with Covid-19

    Article • QJM, July 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    avinash aujayeb

  44. Machine learning risk prediction of mortality for patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2: the COVIDSurg mortality score

    Article • BJS, July 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Josep M Muñoz Vives, Muhammad Umar Younis, Ronald Flumignan, Giovanni Domenico Tebala, Associate Professor of Digestive Surgery Ulysses Ribeiro Jr, Vittoria Bellato, Dr Fakher Rahim, Prof Marcello Migliore, Joshua Totty, Dr Kamana Subba, Prof. Dr. Mahmoud ElFiky, Professor Dr. Ashrarur Rahman Mitul, Edward Caruana, Mostafa Shalaby, avinash aujayeb, Dr Vin Shen Ban, Dr Fabio Martinelli

  45. Ambulatory management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax

    Article • Breathe, June 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  46. Complications after Thoracocentesis and Chest Drain Insertion: A Single Centre Study from the North East of England

    Article • Journal of Respiration, May 2021, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  47. Using a Secure, Continually Updating, Web Source Processing Pipeline to Support the Real-Time Data Synthesis and Analysis of Scientific Literature: Development and Validation Study

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, May 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Ademola Adeyeye , avinash aujayeb

  48. Fatigue and malignant pleural effusions

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, May 2021, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  49. Convalescent plasma in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised controlled, open-label, platform trial

    Article • The Lancet, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Ryan Malcolm Hum, MD Pilar Rivera Ortega, Salman Razvi, Hugh Montgomery, avinash aujayeb

  50. Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial

    Article • The Lancet, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Ryan Malcolm Hum, MD Pilar Rivera Ortega, Salman Razvi, Hugh Montgomery, avinash aujayeb, Henry Wu

  51. Hepatic hydrothorax in the management of cirrhosis

    Article • Gut, March 2021, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  52. Malignant Pleural Effusions Impact on Fatigue (IMPE-F): A Prospective Observational Cohort Pilot Study

    Article • Journal of Respiration, March 2021, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  53. Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection

    Article • Anaesthesia, March 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Mahmoud A. Ebada, Professor Badr Eldin Mostafa, Professor shahnoor islam, Professor Dr. Ashrarur Rahman Mitul, Dimitrios Magouliotis, Roberto Colasanti, Justin Wormald, Dr. Josep M Muñoz Vives, Francesco Di Marzo, Dr Ahmad Ozair, Stênio Zequi, Ronald Flumignan, Dr. Musbahu Sani Kurawa, Vittoria Bellato, Dr Shameel Musthafa, Dr kehinde sharafadeen okunade, MD Aleksandar Bogdanovic, Assia HAIF, Alfie J Kavalakat, Ademola Adeyeye , Joshua Totty, Professor Gianluca Franceschini, Prof NDUBUISI ONYEMAECHI, Dr Rabea A Gadelkareem, Professor Calvin S.H. Ng, Prof. Saleh S. Baeesa, Ahmad Ramzi Yusoff, Professor Dr Osama Farouk, Prof. Dr. Mahmoud ElFiky, Marcos Perini, Dickon Hayne, Dr Ramesh P Menon, Prof. Dr. Alex Alfieri, Edward Caruana, avinash aujayeb, Dr. Luca Bertolaccini, Fernando Cordera, Dr Vin Shen Ban, Dr Fabio Martinelli

  54. A note on lung cancer in the COVID‐19 era

    Article • Respirology, March 2021, Wiley

    avinash aujayeb

  55. Spontaneous Pneumothorax: New Horizons

    Article • Journal of Respiration, February 2021, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  56. Accelerating Detection of Lung Pathologies with Explainable Ultrasound Image Analysis

    Article • Applied Sciences, January 2021, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  57. A Note on USS-Guided Biopsies

    Article • Respiration, January 2021, Karger Publishers

    avinash aujayeb

  58. Pulmonary cystic echinococcosis in a farm worker - do not biopsy the benign nodule

    Article • European Journal of Medical Case Reports, January 2021, Discover Publishing Group

    avinash aujayeb

  59. A review of malignant pleural mesothelioma in a large North East UK pleural centre

    Article • Pleura and Peritoneum, December 2020, De Gruyter

    avinash aujayeb

  60. The value of bronchoscopy in patients with non‐massive haemoptysis and a clear or benign computer tomogram scan

    Article • The Clinical Respiratory Journal, December 2020, Wiley

    avinash aujayeb

  61. A note on pneumothorax post-CT-guided biopsy

    Article • British Journal of Radiology, November 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    avinash aujayeb

  62. A note in indwelling pleural catheter infections

    Article • The Clinical Respiratory Journal, November 2020, Wiley

    avinash aujayeb

  63. A review of the outcomes of rigid medical thoracoscopy in a large UK district general hospital

    Article • Pleura and Peritoneum, November 2020, De Gruyter

    avinash aujayeb

  64. Indwelling pleural catheters for malignancy related pleural effusions

    Article • September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    avinash aujayeb

  65. The UK timed diagnostic lung cancer pathway: a pleural disaster

    Article • September 2020, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  66. Ambulatory pneumothorax with 8FG Rocket® Pleural Vent™ : setting up a service and probable safety in secondary pneumothoraces

    Article • September 2020, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  67. Lung ultrasound in the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Postgraduate Medical Journal, September 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    avinash aujayeb

  68. A note on working from home

    Article • Occupational and Environmental Medicine, August 2020, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  69. A difficult pleural effusion in a cirrhotic patient

    Article • Breathe, June 2020, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  70. Clarification on Pleural Effusions in COVID-19

    Article • Radiology Cardiothoracic Imaging, June 2020, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

    avinash aujayeb

  71. Is the Deciduoid Variant of Pleural Mesothelioma Significant?

    Article • Journal of Thoracic Oncology, June 2020, Elsevier

    avinash aujayeb

  72. Case report: Heart failure from thyrotoxicosis due to Grave’s disease

    Article • May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    avinash aujayeb

  73. Case report: A bulla mistaken for a pneumothorax

    Article • April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    avinash aujayeb

  74. The Stethoscope, Respiratory Examination and Lung Ultrasound in the COVID-19 Era

    Article • April 2020, MDPI AG

    avinash aujayeb

  75. Platypnoea and orthodeoxia in the hepatopulmonary syndrome

    Article • BMJ Case Reports, November 2019, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  76. Ambulatory pneumothorax management with 8FG Rocket® Pleural Vent™

    Article • September 2019, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  77. A left-sided cerebrospinal fluid hydrothorax and a right ventricular-peritoneal shunt: a unique clinical case study

    Article • BMJ Case Reports, September 2019, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  78. An incidental finding of an oesophageal duplication cyst

    Article • BMJ Case Reports, August 2019, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  79. Malignant deciduoid mesothelioma: a rare variant of epithelioid mesothelioma

    Article • BMJ Case Reports, July 2019, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  80. Ambulatory management of pneumothorax using a novel device: Rocket Pleural Vent

    Article • BMJ Case Reports, May 2019, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  81. Mees’ lines in high altitude mountaineering

    Article • BMJ Case Reports, March 2019, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  82. Re-expansion pulmonary oedema in pneumothorax

    Article • BMJ Case Reports, March 2019, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  83. Infections in Invasive Pleural Procedures: A Single Centre Experience

    Article • International Journal of Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine, December 2017, ClinMed International Library

    avinash aujayeb

  84. P240 Outcomes of those diagnosed with chronic fibrinous pleuritis after medical thoracoscopy: a local review

    Article • November 2017, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  85. The Hepatic Hydrothorax

    Article • International Journal of Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine, June 2017, ClinMed International Library

    avinash aujayeb

  86. Methotrexate Overdose

    Article • International Journal of Pharmacovigilance, April 2017, Symbiosis Group

    avinash aujayeb

  87. A Missed Diagnosis

    Article • Clinical Medical Reviews and Case Reports, February 2017, ClinMed International Library

    avinash aujayeb

  88. 146: Treatment of loculated malignant effusions

    Article • Lung Cancer, January 2017, Elsevier

    avinash aujayeb

  89. An review of infection rates of invasive pleural procedures

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, September 2016, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  90. 164 A review of an indwelling pleural catheter service

    Article • Lung Cancer, January 2016, Elsevier

    avinash aujayeb

  91. 53 A review of a thoracoscopy service

    Article • Lung Cancer, January 2016, Elsevier

    avinash aujayeb

  92. A review of a pleural service

    Article • The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, January 2016, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

    avinash aujayeb

  93. 4 cases of air in the lining of the lungs and asscociated structures

    Article • Breathe, December 2015, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  94. A sanguine experience

    Article • Breathe, September 2015, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  95. Acute breathlessness in lung cancer

    Article • Breathe, December 2014, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  96. An abnormal chest radiograph

    Article • BMJ, November 2014, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  97. The passenger lymphocyte syndrome - experience from a cardiothoracic transplant unit

    Article • Transfusion Medicine, October 2014, Wiley

    avinash aujayeb

  98. A surgical case of haemothorax

    Article • Breathe, February 2014, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  99. Influenza: an outbreak in a UK respiratory centre

    Article • British Journal of Nursing, December 2013, Mark Allen Group

    avinash aujayeb

  100. Blood in a chest drain

    Article • Breathe, December 2013, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  101. P243 Influenza A outbreak in a UK respiratory centre

    Article • Thorax, November 2013, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb

  102. Out-of-Body Experience in the Karakorum

    Article • Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, September 2013, Elsevier

    avinash aujayeb

  103. Pneumomediastinum and pneumorrhachis: a lot of air about nothing?

    Article • Breathe, June 2012, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  104. Malignant mesothelioma presenting as a breast mass

    Article • The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, March 2012, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

    avinash aujayeb

  105. Black lungs and tuberculosis

    Article • Breathe, March 2012, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  106. A not so simple effusion

    Article • Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, January 2012, Elsevier

    avinash aujayeb

  107. Breath-holding in a marijuana smoker

    Article • Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, January 2012, Elsevier

    avinash aujayeb

  108. A thrombolysed empyema

    Article • Breathe, January 2010, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    avinash aujayeb

  109. The e-portfolio

    Article • BMJ, June 2008, BMJ

    avinash aujayeb