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  • 2005 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Gordon D. Murray is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with specific expertise in the subfields of Neurology, Surgery, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research
  • Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Wood Treatment and Properties

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Murray include:

  • Quan He (4 coauthored publications)
  • Graham M. Teasdale (2 coauthored publications)
  • Marie Fallon (2 coauthored publications)
  • Peter Hall (2 coauthored publications)
  • Rahil Changotra (2 coauthored publications)

Murray's recent papers cover a range of clinical and therapeutic topics published in reputable scientific journals:

  • "Long-term cardiovascular safety of febuxostat compared with allopurinol in patients with gout (FAST): a multicentre, prospective, randomised, open-label, non-inferiority trial" (2020) in The Lancet
  • "Evaluation of Outcomes Among Patients With Traumatic Intracranial Hypertension Treated With Decompressive Craniectomy vs Standard Medical Care at 24 Months" (2022) in JAMA Neurology
  • "Targeting rehabilitation to improve outcomes after total knee arthroplasty in patients at risk of poor outcomes: randomised controlled trial" (2020) in BMJ
  • "Effects of Antiplatelet Therapy After Stroke Caused by Intracerebral Hemorrhage" (2021) in JAMA Neurology
  • "An international, open-label, randomised trial comparing a two-step approach versus the standard three-step approach of the WHO analgesic ladder in patients with cancer" (2022) in Annals of Oncology

Frequent publication venues for Murray's work include:

  • JAMA Neurology (2 publications)
  • UNC Libraries (2 publications)
  • The Lancet (1 publication)
  • BMJ (1 publication)
  • Annals of Oncology (1 publication)

Murray was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Secondary prevention of macrovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes in the PROactive Study (PROspective pioglitAzone Clinical Trial In macroVascular Events): a randomised controlled trial.

    John A. Dormandy;Bernard Charbonnel;David J A Eckland;Erland Erdmann

  • Effect of treatment delay, age, and stroke severity on the effects of intravenous thrombolysis with alteplase for acute ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from randomised trials

    Jonathan Emberson;Kennedy R Lees;Patrick Lyden;Lisa Blackwell

  • Ankle brachial index combined with Framingham risk score to predict cardiovascular events and mortality: A meta-analysis

    F.G.R. Fowkes;G.D. Murray;I. Butcher;C.L. Heald

  • Long-term ACE-inhibitor therapy in patients with heart failure or left-ventricular dysfunction: A systematic overview of data from individual patients

    Marcus D. Flather;Salim Yusuf;Lars Køber;Marc Pfeffer

  • Early surgery versus initial conservative treatment in patients with spontaneous supratentorial intracerebral haematomas in the International Surgical Trial in Intracerebral Haemorrhage (STICH): a randomised trial

    A David Mendelow;Barbara A Gregson;Helen M Fernandes;Gordon D Murray

  • Effect of ramipril on mortality and morbidity of survivors of acute myocardial infarction with clinical evidence of heart failure

    DG Julian;AJ Moss;GD Murray;PA Poole-Wilson

  • The benefits and harms of intravenous thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator within 6 h of acute ischaemic stroke (the third international stroke trial [IST-3]): a randomised controlled trial

    Peter Sandercock;Joanna M Wardlaw;Richard I Lindley

  • Predicting outcome after traumatic brain injury: development and international validation of prognostic scores based on admission characteristics.

    Ewout W Steyerberg;Nino Mushkudiani;Pablo Perel;Isabella Butcher

  • Medical Complications After Stroke A Multicenter Study

    P. Langhorne;D. J. Stott;L. Robertson;J. MacDonald

  • Early surgery versus initial conservative treatment in patients with spontaneous supratentorial lobar intracerebral haematomas (STICH II): a randomised trial

    A David Mendelow;Barbara A Gregson;Elise N Rowan;Gordon D Murray

  • Effect of oral nimodipine on cerebral infarction and outcome after subarachnoid haemorrhage: British aneurysm nimodipine trial.

    J. D. Pickard;G. D. Murray;R. Illingworth;M. D. Shaw

  • Reproducibility of pulse wave velocity and augmentation index measured by pulse wave analysis

    Ian B. Wilkinson;Sabine A. Fuchs;Ilse M. Jansen;James C. Spratt

  • Effects of influenza vaccination of health-care workers on mortality of elderly people in long-term care: a randomised controlled trial

    William F Carman;Alexander G Elder;Lesley A Wallace;Karen McAulay

  • Trial of Decompressive Craniectomy for Traumatic Intracranial Hypertension.

    Peter J. Hutchinson;Angelos G. Kolias;Ivan S. Timofeev;Elizabeth A. Corteen

  • The Glasgow Coma Scale at 40 years: standing the test of time

    Graham Teasdale;Andrew Maas;Fiona Lecky;Geoffrey Manley

  • Disability in young people and adults one year after head injury: prospective cohort study

    Sharon Thornhill;Graham M Teasdale;Gordon D Murray;James McEwen

  • Association of apolipoprotein E polymorphism with outcome after head injury

    Graham M Teasdale;James A R Nicoll;Gordon Murray;Matilda Fiddes

  • Patient age and outcome following severe traumatic brain injury: an analysis of 5600 patients.

    Chantal W P M Hukkelhoven;Ewout W Steyerberg;Anneke J J Rampen;Elana Farace

  • Is hyperglycaemia an independent predictor of poor outcome after acute stroke? Results of a long-term follow up study.

    Christopher J Weir;Gordon D Murray;Alexander G Dyker;Kennedy R Lees

  • Prospective study of Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and cardiovascular diseases in a general elderly population

    Timo E Strandberg;Reijo S Tilvis;Matti Vuoristo;Magnus Lindroos

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew I. R. Maas
Andrew I. R. Maas University of Antwerp
Ewout W. Steyerberg
Ewout W. Steyerberg Leiden University Medical Center
Michael Sharpe
Michael Sharpe University of Oxford
Aziz Sheikh
Aziz Sheikh University of Oxford
John F. Forbes
John F. Forbes University of Limerick
Anthony Marmarou
Anthony Marmarou Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
Peter Sandercock
Peter Sandercock University of Edinburgh
Nino Stocchetti
Nino Stocchetti University of Milan
Hester F. Lingsma
Hester F. Lingsma Erasmus University Rotterdam
Eric W.F.W. Alton
Eric W.F.W. Alton National Institutes of Health

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