Virginie Desestret

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Virginie Desestret is a scholar working on Neurology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginie Desestret has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Neurology, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Virginie Desestret's work include Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments (36 papers), Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (18 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (9 papers). Virginie Desestret is often cited by papers focused on Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments (36 papers), Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (18 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (9 papers). Virginie Desestret collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and United States. Virginie Desestret's co-authors include Jérôme Honnorat, Bastien Joubert, Dimitri Psimaras, Véronique Rogemond, Géraldine Picard, François Ducray, Alberto Vogrig, Sergio Muñiz‐Castrillo, Jean‐Yves Delattre and Jean‐Christophe Antoine and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Neurology and Stroke.

In The Last Decade

Virginie Desestret

67 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Updated Diagnostic Criteria for Paraneoplastic Neurologic Syndromes

2021 357 citations Alberto Vogrig, Sergio Muñiz‐Castrillo et al. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Virginie Desestret France	28	1.6k	481	367	334	322	71	2.5k
Αναστασία Ζεκερίδου United States	27	1.7k 1.0×	403 0.8×	228 0.6×	386 1.2×	273 0.8×	99	2.3k
Bastien Joubert France	28	2.0k 1.2×	415 0.9×	500 1.4×	458 1.4×	352 1.1×	104	2.6k
Alfredo Voloschin United States	18	2.1k 1.3×	482 1.0×	385 1.0×	637 1.9×	652 2.0×	36	3.0k
Peter Sillevis Smitt Netherlands	22	1.5k 0.9×	705 1.5×	636 1.7×	302 0.9×	478 1.5×	48	2.4k
A. Sebastian López‐Chiriboga United States	27	2.3k 1.4×	357 0.7×	281 0.8×	264 0.8×	223 0.7×	89	2.8k
Jean‐Christophe Antoine France	25	1.7k 1.0×	302 0.6×	454 1.2×	172 0.5×	327 1.0×	64	2.1k
Haruo Shimazaki Japan	21	1.8k 1.1×	852 1.8×	858 2.3×	335 1.0×	598 1.9×	73	2.9k
Ji Yeoun Lee South Korea	27	837 0.5×	646 1.3×	431 1.2×	180 0.5×	152 0.5×	188	2.7k
Markus Bergmann Germany	27	1.1k 0.7×	988 2.1×	316 0.9×	328 1.0×	192 0.6×	88	3.8k
Scott M. Gianino United States	21	742 0.5×	483 1.0×	298 0.8×	108 0.3×	97 0.3×	23	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Virginie Desestret

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Farina, Antonio, Macarena Villagrán‐García, Marie Bénaiteau, et al.. (2025). Application of the anti-IgLON5 disease composite score to assess severity, clinical course, and mortality in a French cohort. Journal of Neurology. 272(4). 273–273. 2 indexed citations

Farina, Antonio, et al.. (2025). Neurodegeneration and the immune system: lessons from autoimmune encephalitis. Journal of Neurology. 272(5). 359–359.

Farina, Antonio, Macarena Villagrán‐García, Marie Bénaiteau, et al.. (2025). Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Correlates With Clinical Severity and Predicts Mortality in Anti-IgLON5 Disease. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 12(6). e200498–e200498.

Thomsen, Liv Cecilie Vestrheim, et al.. (2024). Altered exosomal miRNA profiles in patients with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 11(12). 3255–3266. 3 indexed citations

Honnorat, Jérôme, et al.. (2024). Mechanisms of immune tolerance breakdown in paraneoplastic neurological syndromes. Revue Neurologique. 180(9). 931–939.

Manet, Romain, Zofia Czosnyka, Marek Czosnyka, et al.. (2023). Managing Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: Need for a Change of Mindset. World Neurosurgery. 178. e6–e12. 3 indexed citations

Jusué-Torres, Ignacio, et al.. (2023). CSF dynamics in long-standing overt ventriculomegaly in adults. Neurosurgical FOCUS. 54(4). E8–E8. 4 indexed citations

Villagrán‐García, Macarena, Antonio Farina, Sergio Muñiz‐Castrillo, et al.. (2023). Revisiting anti-Hu paraneoplastic autoimmunity: phenotypic characterization and cancer diagnosis. Brain Communications. 5(5). fcad247–fcad247. 20 indexed citations

Bompaire, Flavie, Cristina Birzu, Kévin Bihan, et al.. (2023). Advances in treatments of patients with classical and emergent neurological toxicities of anticancer agents. Revue Neurologique. 179(5). 405–416. 3 indexed citations

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Vogrig, Alberto, Sergio Muñiz‐Castrillo, Bastien Joubert, et al.. (2020). Cranial Nerve Disorders Associated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. Neurology. 96(6). e866–e875. 44 indexed citations

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Simard, Claire, Alberto Vogrig, Bastien Joubert, et al.. (2020). Clinical spectrum and diagnostic pitfalls of neurologic syndromes with Ri antibodies. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 7(3). 58 indexed citations

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Hébert, Julien, Benjamin Riche, Alberto Vogrig, et al.. (2020). Epidemiology of paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes and autoimmune encephalitides in France. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 7(6). 72 indexed citations

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Joubert, Bastien, Julie Haesebaert, Sylvain Rheims, et al.. (2020). Long-term outcomes in temporal lobe epilepsy with glutamate decarboxylase antibodies. Journal of Neurology. 267(7). 2083–2089. 30 indexed citations

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Joubert, Bastien, Florent Gobert, Laure Thomas, et al.. (2017). Autoimmune episodic ataxia in patients with anti-CASPR2 antibody-associated encephalitis. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 4(4). e371–e371. 56 indexed citations

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Hillary, Ryan P., Hanna M. Ollila, Ling Lin, et al.. (2017). Complex HLA association in paraneoplastic cerebellar ataxia with anti-Yo antibodies. Journal of Neuroimmunology. 315. 28–32. 21 indexed citations

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Joubert, Bastien, Géraldine Picard, Véronique Rogemond, et al.. (2017). Initial clinical presentation of young children with N-methyl- d -aspartate receptor encephalitis. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. 22(3). 404–411. 20 indexed citations

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Agard, Émilie, Damien Biotti, Ariane Malclès, et al.. (2015). Un myosis louche. La Revue de Médecine Interne. 36(11). 783–785. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaowei, Pietro Ciccarino, Marta Rossetto, et al.. (2014). IDHMutations: Genotype-Phenotype Correlation and Prognostic Impact. BioMed Research International. 2014. 1–7. 24 indexed citations

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Desestret, Virginie, Nathalie Streichenberger, Muriel Panouillères, et al.. (2013). An Elderly Woman With Difficulty Reading and Abnormal Eye Movements. Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology. 33(3). 296–301. 2 indexed citations

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Desestret, Virginie, Pietro Ciccarino, François Ducray, et al.. (2011). Prognostic stratification of gliomatosis cerebri by IDH1R132H and INA expression. Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 105(2). 219–224. 33 indexed citations

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