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Christian Confavreux

Christian Confavreux

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Medicine

D-Index
75
Citations
31704
World Ranking
18981
National Ranking
634

Overview

Christian Confavreux was affiliated with the University of Lyon System in France. Their research focused primarily on the field of medicine, with notable contributions to oncology, general health professions, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, rheumatology, and surgery.

The scientist's main topics of work encompassed bone health and treatments, cancer diagnosis and treatment, radiopharmaceutical chemistry and applications, rheumatoid arthritis research and therapies, health, medicine and society, healthcare systems and practices, and medical and biological sciences.

Their publications appeared predominantly in the journal Revue du Rhumatisme, with additional contributions to the Journal of Bone Oncology, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, and La Revue de Médecine Interne.

  • Synergistic effect between denosumab and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI)? A retrospective study of 268 patients with ICI and bone metastases (2024), Journal of Bone Oncology
  • Évolution de l'incidence des métastases osseuses et de leur traitement par anti-résorbeurs en France entre 2009 et 2018: étude OPTIMOS (2023), Revue du Rhumatisme
  • POS0180 ACR20 RESPONSE AS SURROGATE OF ACR70 RESPONSE IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: A TRIAL-LEVEL ANALYSIS FROM A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF RANDOMIZED TRIALS (2023), Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Intérêt du stage en milieu libéral pour l'interne de rhumatologie: la vision de l'interne (2023), Revue du Rhumatisme
  • Existe t'il un effet synergique anti-cancéreux entre le denosumab et les inhibiteurs de checkpoint immunitaire (ICI)? Une étude rétrospective de 268 patients métastatiques osseux traités par ICI (2023), Revue du Rhumatisme

Frequent collaborators included Emmanuel Massy, Julien Péron, Denis Maillet, Stéphane Dalle, and E. Mabrut.

Best Publications

  • Natalizumab plus Interferon Beta-1a for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

    Richard A. Rudick;William H. Stuart;Peter A. Calabresi;Christian Confavreux

  • Development of a multiple sclerosis functional composite as a clinical trial outcome measure

    Gary R. Cutter;Monika L. Baier;Richard A. Rudick;Diane L. Cookfair

  • Early Clinical Predictors and Progression of Irreversible Disability in Multiple Sclerosis: an Amnesic Process

    Christian Confavreux;Sandra Vukusic;Patrice Adeleine

  • Alemtuzumab versus interferon beta 1a as first-line treatment for patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a randomised controlled phase 3 trial.

    Jeffrey A. Cohen;Alasdair J. Coles;Douglas L. Arnold;Christian Confavreux

  • Alemtuzumab for patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis after disease-modifying therapy: A randomised controlled phase 3 trial

    Alasdair J. Coles;Cary L. Twyman;Douglas L. Arnold;Jeffrey A. Cohen

  • Randomized Trial of Oral Teriflunomide for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

    Paul O'Connor;Jerry S Wolinsky;Christian Confavreux;Giancarlo Comi

  • Course and Prognosis of Multiple Sclerosis Assessed by the Computerized Data Processing of 349 Patients

    C. Confavreux;G. Aimard;M. Devic

  • Oral teriflunomide for patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (TOWER): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial.

    Christian Confavreux;Paul O'Connor;Giancarlo Comi;Mark S. Freedman

  • Vaccinations and the Risk of Relapse in Multiple Sclerosis

    Christian Confavreux;Samy Suissa;Patricia Saddier;Valérie Bourdès

  • Natural History of Multiple Sclerosis with Childhood Onset

    Christel Renoux;Sandra Vukusic;Christian Confavreux

  • Therapeutic effect of mitoxantrone combined with methylprednisolone in multiple sclerosis: a randomised multicentre study of active disease using MRI and clinical criteria.

    G Edan;D Miller;M Clanet;C Confavreux

  • Recommendations from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Clinical Outcomes Assessment Task Force

    Richard Rudick;Jack Antel;Christian Confavreux;Gary Cutter

  • A Phase II study of the safety and efficacy of teriflunomide in multiple sclerosis with relapses

    P W O'Connor;D Li;M S Freedman;A Bar-Or

  • The incidence and significance of anti-natalizumab antibodies: Results from AFFIRM and SENTINEL

    P. A. Calabresi;G. Giovannoni;C. Confavreux;S. L. Galetta

  • Mutations in SPG11, encoding spatacsin, are a major cause of spastic paraplegia with thin corpus callosum

    Giovanni Stevanin;Filippo M. Santorelli;Hamid Azzedine;Hamid Azzedine;Paula Coutinho

  • First episode of acute CNS inflammatory demyelination in childhood: prognostic factors for multiple sclerosis and disability.

    Yann Mikaeloff;Samy Suissa;Louis Vallée;Catherine Lubetzki

  • Secondary progressive multiple sclerosis: current knowledge and future challenges

    Marco Rovaris;Christian Confavreux;Roberto Furlan;Ludwig Kappos

  • Teriflunomide versus subcutaneous interferon beta-1a in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis: a randomised, controlled phase 3 trial:

    Patrick Vermersch;Anna Czlonkowska;Luigi M E Grimaldi;Christian Confavreux

  • EDMUS, a European database for multiple sclerosis.

    C. Confavreux;D. A. S. Compston;O. R. Hommes;W. I. Mcdonald

  • Conversion from clinically isolated syndrome to multiple sclerosis: A large multicentre study

    J. Kuhle;G. Disanto;R. Dobson;R. Adiutori

Frequent Co-Authors

Ludwig Kappos
Ludwig Kappos University Hospital of Basel
Patrick Vermersch
Patrick Vermersch University of Lille
Jérôme Honnorat
Jérôme Honnorat Hospices Civils de Lyon
Fred D. Lublin
Fred D. Lublin Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Giancarlo Comi
Giancarlo Comi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Tomas Olsson
Tomas Olsson Karolinska Institute
Mark S. Freedman
Mark S. Freedman Ottawa Hospital
Richard A. Rudick
Richard A. Rudick Biogen (United States)
Charles R.G. Guttmann
Charles R.G. Guttmann Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bertrand Fontaine
Bertrand Fontaine Université Paris Cité

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