Philippe Léger

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Philippe Léger is a scholar working on Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Philippe Léger has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Surgery, 34 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 33 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Philippe Léger's work include Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (31 papers), Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (30 papers) and Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (22 papers). Philippe Léger is often cited by papers focused on Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (31 papers), Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (30 papers) and Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (22 papers). Philippe Léger collaborates with scholars based in France, Belgium and Italy. Philippe Léger's co-authors include Alain Pavie, Pascal Leprince, Alain Combes, Jean Chastre, Charles‐Édouard Luyt, Patrick Sorgeloos, Jean‐Louis Trouillet, I Gandjbakhch, Nicolas Bonnet and Christèle Kandalaft and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Journal of Applied Physiology.

In The Last Decade

Philippe Léger

114 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Outcomes and long-term quality-of-life of patients supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for refractory cardiogenic shock*

2008 466 citations Alain Combes, Pascal Leprince et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philippe Léger France	31	1.8k	1.6k	1.0k	917	255	125	3.3k
Raúl J. Gazmuri United States	34	784 0.4×	978 0.6×	3.3k 3.2×	1.2k 1.3×	24 0.1×	131	4.1k
Andrew R. Chapman United Kingdom	30	598 0.3×	395 0.3×	139 0.1×	1.7k 1.9×	51 0.2×	94	3.0k
Michelle A. Baum United States	28	662 0.4×	131 0.1×	337 0.3×	87 0.1×	38 0.1×	59	3.1k
Mohamed Amrani United Kingdom	36	2.2k 1.2×	930 0.6×	368 0.4×	1.7k 1.8×	2 0.0×	213	4.3k
Robert K. Rude United States	41	717 0.4×	428 0.3×	59 0.1×	436 0.5×	16 0.1×	89	5.9k
Andreas Vogt Switzerland	23	897 0.5×	106 0.1×	114 0.1×	407 0.4×	15 0.1×	107	1.7k
Chris Harvey United Kingdom	20	442 0.2×	597 0.4×	246 0.2×	87 0.1×	6 0.0×	77	1.7k
Masanori Tamura Japan	20	605 0.3×	116 0.1×	486 0.5×	103 0.1×	15 0.1×	105	2.4k
William W. Fox United States	29	822 0.4×	105 0.1×	128 0.1×	52 0.1×	114 0.4×	125	2.8k
Bruce S. Cutler United States	35	2.5k 1.3×	214 0.1×	180 0.2×	2.0k 2.1×	3 0.0×	139	4.7k

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Lebray, Pascal, Shaïda Varnous, Philippe Léger, et al.. (2018). Predictive value of liver damage for severe early complications and survival after heart transplantation: A retrospective analysis. Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. 42(5). 416–426. 10 indexed citations

Léger, Philippe, et al.. (2017). Bilan d’un centre de cicatrisation. 1(1). 60–63.

Pozzi, Matteo, Ciro Mastroianni, Pascal Leprince, et al.. (2012). Bridge to transplant using BIVAD or total artificial heart: is there a survival difference?. The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery. 53. 5–5. 1 indexed citations

Beurtheret, Sylvain, Pierre Mordant, Xavier Paolettí, et al.. (2012). Emergency circulatory support in refractory cardiogenic shock patients in remote institutions: a pilot study (the cardiac-RESCUE program). European Heart Journal. 34(2). 112–120. 164 indexed citations

Pavie, Alain, Shaïda Varnous, Akhtar Rama, et al.. (2012). Réflexions sur 2 000 transplantations cardiaques, expérience de La Pitié. Bulletin de l Académie Nationale de Médecine. 196(4-5). 983–996. 2 indexed citations

Mirabel, Mariana, Charles‐Édouard Luyt, Pascal Leprince, et al.. (2011). Outcomes, long-term quality of life, and psychologic assessment of fulminant myocarditis patients rescued by mechanical circulatory support*. Critical Care Medicine. 39(5). 1029–1035. 160 indexed citations

Beurtheret, Sylvain, Pierre Mordant, Stéphane Aubert, et al.. (2010). First Results Of The Mobil Unit For Mechanical Circulatory Support. A6037–A6037. 1 indexed citations

Kownator, Serge, Jean‐Pierre Cambou, P. Cacoub, et al.. (2009). Prevalence of unknown peripheral arterial disease in patients with coronary artery disease: Data in primary care from the IPSILON study. Archives of cardiovascular diseases. 102(8-9). 625–631. 27 indexed citations

Léger, Philippe, et al.. (2008). Que retenir de la littérature récente concernant les antithrombotiques ?. Annales de Cardiologie et d Angéiologie. 58(4). 230–235. 1 indexed citations

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Cacoub, P., J.-P. Cambou, Serge Kownator, et al.. (2008). Prevalence of peripheral arterial disease in high-risk patients using ankle-brachial index in general practice: a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Clinical Practice. 63(1). 63–70. 53 indexed citations

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Léger, Philippe, et al.. (2007). Analyse des accidents, des moyens de monitorage et de sécurité de la circulation extracorporelle pour chirurgie cardiaque en France en 2005. Annales Françaises d Anesthésie et de Réanimation. 26(11). 907–915. 4 indexed citations

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Léger, Philippe, Jean‐Pierre Cambus, B Boneu, & Henri Boccalon. (2003). Les cliniques d‘anticoagulants. Sang thrombose vaisseaux. 15(6). 288–290. 3 indexed citations

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Ouattara, Alexandre, et al.. (2003). Target-controlled infusion of propofol and remifentanil in cardiac anaesthesia: influence of age on predicted effect-site concentrations † †Presented in part at the 10th annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiologists, Nice, France, April 6–9, 2002.. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 90(5). 617–622. 33 indexed citations

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Pavie, Alain, Philippe Léger, Mary Regan, et al.. (2000). Emergency mechanical circulatory support: still viable?. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 19(8). S101–S104. 5 indexed citations

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Léger, Philippe, et al.. (1999). Comparative of blood flow to the ankle-brachial index after iliac angioplasty.. PubMed. 18(2). 154–7. 6 indexed citations

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Pavie, Alain, et al.. (1998). Heart Retransplantation: A 23-Year Single-Center Clinical Experience. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 65(4). 978–983. 57 indexed citations

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Léger, Philippe, Mary Regan, Patrick Nataf, et al.. (1995). Clinical Experience with a Total Artificial Heart as a Bridge for Transplantation: The Pitie Experience. Journal of Cardiac Surgery. 10(5). 552–558. 14 indexed citations

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Nataf, Patrick, Alain Pavie, V. Bors, et al.. (1993). Heart transplantation in 1992: the La Pitié experience.. PubMed. 25(3). 2220–1. 4 indexed citations

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Kawaguchi, Akira T., I Gandjbakhch, Alain Pavie, et al.. (1989). Factors affecting survival after heterotopic heart transplantation. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 98(5). 928–934. 16 indexed citations

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Corcos, Thierry, Corrado Tamburino, Philippe Léger, et al.. (1988). Early and late hemodynamic evaluation after cardiac transplantation: A study of 28 cases. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 11(2). 264–269. 42 indexed citations

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