B Letac

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
144 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

B Letac is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, B Letac has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 51 papers in Surgery and 33 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in B Letac's work include Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (45 papers), Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (27 papers) and Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management (19 papers). B Letac is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (45 papers), Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (27 papers) and Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management (19 papers). B Letac collaborates with scholars based in France, Tunisia and United States. B Letac's co-authors include Alain Cribier, Nadir Saoudi, Hervé Poty, Mohan Nair, Geneviève Dérumeaux, René Köning, Thierry Savin, Paulo Rocha, Jacques Berland and Frédéric Anselme and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

B Letac

136 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY OF ACQUIRED AORTIC STENOSIS IN ELDERLY PATIENTS: AN ALTERNATIVE TO VALVE REPLACEMENT?

1986 419 citations Alain Cribier, Nadir Saoudi et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
B Letac	2.9k	727	724	719	500	144	3.4k
S H Rahimtoola	2.7k 0.9×	763 1.0×	533 0.7×	634 0.9×	668 1.3×	57	3.0k
Hideaki Senzaki	1.7k 0.6×	807 1.1×	851 1.2×	938 1.3×	233 0.5×	141	2.7k
Philippe Unger	1.4k 0.5×	580 0.8×	722 1.0×	452 0.6×	158 0.3×	135	2.3k
William P. Follansbee	1.3k 0.5×	316 0.4×	420 0.6×	284 0.4×	721 1.4×	47	2.4k
Achille Gaspardone	2.0k 0.7×	1.5k 2.1×	576 0.8×	333 0.5×	831 1.7×	134	3.4k
Hideo Mitamura	2.9k 1.0×	485 0.7×	228 0.3×	337 0.5×	519 1.0×	157	3.5k
Edith R. Schmid	1.3k 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	706 1.0×	355 0.5×	131 0.3×	97	3.0k
James D. Rossen	1.6k 0.5×	922 1.3×	419 0.6×	236 0.3×	857 1.7×	66	2.5k
J Ross	1.9k 0.7×	561 0.8×	292 0.4×	110 0.2×	837 1.7×	41	2.5k
James W. Frederiksen	1.7k 0.6×	472 0.6×	283 0.4×	116 0.2×	642 1.3×	44	2.4k

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Saoudi, Nadir, Hervé Poty, M Redonnet, Frédéric Anselme, & B Letac. (1996). Arrhythmogenic atrioatrial conduction after orthotopic heart transplantation: A new indication for radiofrequency catheter ablation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 27(2). 122–122. 4 indexed citations

Soyer, R, F Bouchart, Jean Paul Bessou, et al.. (1996). Aortic valve replacement after aortic valvuloplasty for calcified aortic stenosis. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 10(11). 977–982. 6 indexed citations

Saoudi, Nadir, Hervé Poty, Frédéric Anselme, & B Letac. (1995). 943-11 Endocardial Activation Mapping of the Area Posterior to the Coronary Sinus Ostium in Type 1 Atrial Flutter. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 25(2). 168A–169A. 7 indexed citations

Dérumeaux, Geneviève, M Redonnet, D Mouton-Schleifer, et al.. (1995). Dobutamine stress echocardiography in orthotopic heart transplant recipients. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 25(7). 1665–1672. 70 indexed citations

Saoudi, Nadir, B Letac, & A Castellanos. (1995). An electronic model for evaluating the dynamics of perfect pure parasystole in the human heart. The American Journal of Cardiology. 75(10). 739–742. 3 indexed citations

Anselme, Frédéric, Nadir Saoudi, M Redonnet, & B Letac. (1994). Atrioatrial conduction after orthotopic heart transplantation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 24(1). 185–189. 31 indexed citations

Köning, René, Alain Cribier, G Stix, et al.. (1993). Progressive decrease in myocardial ischemia assessed by intracoronary electrocardiogram during successive and prolonged coronary occlusions in angioplasty. American Heart Journal. 125(1). 56–61. 11 indexed citations

Köning, René, et al.. (1993). Results of Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty in Patients with Aortic Stenosis Associated with Significant Aortic Regurgitation. Journal of Interventional Cardiology. 6(3). 207–211. 2 indexed citations

Cribier, Alain, René Köning, Pratap Chandra Rath, et al.. (1992). Improved myocardial ischemic response and enhanced collateral circulation with long repetitive coronary occlusion during angioplasty: A prospective study. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 20(3). 578–586. 194 indexed citations

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Cribier, Alain, et al.. (1991). Effect of successive and prolonged coronary occlusions on the collateral circulation during PTCA. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 17(2). A17–A17. 2 indexed citations

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Saoudi, Nadir, Geneviève Dérumeaux, Alain Cribier, & B Letac. (1991). The Role of Catheter Ablation Techniques in the Treatment of Classic (Type 1) Atrial Flutter. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 14(11). 2022–2027. 22 indexed citations

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Cribier, Alain & B Letac. (1991). Percutaneous balloon aortic valvuloplasty in adults with calcific aortic stenosis. Current Opinion in Cardiology. 6(2). 212–218. 12 indexed citations

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Farcot, J C, et al.. (1990). Physiologic anteroperfusion system during balloon angioplasty: Experimental validation and clinical evaluation in single coronary disease patients. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 15(2). A249–A249. 1 indexed citations

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Letac, B, et al.. (1988). Results of percutaneous transluminal valvuloplasty in 218 adults with valvular aortic stenosis. The American Journal of Cardiology. 62(9). 598–605. 86 indexed citations

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Fillastre, Jean–Paul, et al.. (1988). A multicenter double-blind comparative study of rilmenidine and clonidine in 333 hypertensive patients. The American Journal of Cardiology. 61(7). D81–D85. 50 indexed citations

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Cribier, Alain, Thierry Savin, Jacques Berland, et al.. (1987). Percutaneous transluminal balloon valvuloplasty of adult aortic stenosis: Report of 92 cases. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 9(2). 381–386. 181 indexed citations

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Saoudi, Nadir, A. Castellanos, M. Galtier, et al.. (1987). Unusual electrocardiographic patterns of modulated parasystole. European Heart Journal. 8(11). 1229–1235. 4 indexed citations

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Brochier, M, H Kulbertus, B Letac, et al.. (1987). Intravenous Anisoylated Plasminogen Streptokinase Activator Complex versus Intravenous Streptokinase in Evolving Myocardial Infarction. Drugs. 33(Supplement 3). 140–145. 45 indexed citations

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Berland, J, et al.. (1972). [Percutaneous valvotomy in the combination of mitral and tricuspid valve stenosis. Report of 3 cases].. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 18(10). 107–118. 1 indexed citations

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Even, P, et al.. (1965). Cardiopathie carcinoïde (nouvelle observation clinique, hémodynamique, biologique et anatomique). Archives Des Maladies Du Coeur Et Des Vaisseaux. 58(11). 5 indexed citations

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