M. Pilar Tornos
Education:
- 1974 Medical Doctor (M.D.) Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, España. Average mark: 9,5. Honour Degree.
- 1975-77 Residency in Cardiology. Hospital General Valle de Hebrón, Barcelona.
- 1977 PhD Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. Honour Degree.
- 1978 Research Associate. Cardiology Service. Flinders University, South Australia.
Professional carrier:
- 1979: Cardiology Service. Hospital General Universitario Vall d’Hebron Barcelona.
- 1986 Responsable of the Clinical área. Cardiology Service. Hospital General Universitario Vall d’Hebron Barcelona.
- 1986-2017 Head of the Valve Unit. Cardiology Service. Hospital General Universitario Vall d’Hebron Barcelona.
- 2000-2017 Head of the Endocarditis Unit. Hospital General Universitario Vall d’Hebron Barcelona.
- 2017- Head of the Cardiology Servivce. Hospital Quiron Barcelona.
Teaching activities:
- 1979-1984 Associaded profesor of Cardiology Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
- 1984-2017 Professor of Cardiology Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
- Profesor titular por concurso oposición desde Marzo de 1986 a tiempo completo. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
- Director of 12 Medical Thesis.
Memberships of Scientific Societies:
- Member of the Spanish Society of Cardiology.
- Member of the Catalan Society of Cardiology.
- Member of the European Society of Cardiology.
- Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.
- Member of the Working Group of Valvular Diseases of the ESC.
- Ex member of the Nominating committee of the ESC.
- Past President of the Catalan Society of Cardiology.
- Past Chair of the WG of Valvular Diseases of the ESC.
Awards:
“Premio a la Excelencia Profesional.”. Colegio de Médicos. Barcelona
10 – Year track record:
- In the last ten years I have been devoted to clinical and work as well as clinical research in the field of valvular and infective endocarditis
- Member of The Task Force of The European Guidelines of Valvular Diseases (2012 And 2017) and of Infective Endocarditis (2009and 2015)
Publications:
- Fernández-Hidalgo N, Almirante B, Tornos P, González-Alujas MT, Planes AM, Larrosa MN, Sambola A, Igual A, Pahissa A. Prognosis of left-sided infective endocarditis in patients transferred to a tertiary-care hospital-prospective analysis of referral bias and influence of inadequate antimicrobial treatment. Clin Microbiol Infect, 2010.
- Prendergast B, Tornos P. Surgery in infective endocarditis. Circulation 2010; 121:1141-52.
- Sambola A, Fernández-Hidalgo N, Almirante B, Roca I, González-Alujas T, Serra B, Pahissa A, García-Dorado D, Tornos P. Sex differences in native-valve infective endocarditis in a single tertiary-care hospital. Am J Cardiol. 2010 Jul 1;106(1):92-8. Epub 2010 May 13.
- Mogollón MV, Anguita MP, Aguado JM, Tornos P, Miró JM, Gálvez-Acebal J, Muñoz-Sanz A, Fariñas MD, Fernández-Guerrero M, Vilacosta I, Muñoz P, Montejo-Baranda JM, Hidalgo-Tenorio C, Falcó V, Del Río A, Arnaíz AM, San-Feliú I, de Alarcón A; on behalf of the Spanish Q Fever Endocarditis Group. Q fever endocarditis in Spain. Clinical characteristics and outcome. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2011 Feb;29(2):109-116. Epub 2011 Feb 17.
- Rosenhek R, Iung B, Tornos P, Antunes M, Prendergast B, Otto C et al. Assessing the risk of interventions in patients with valvular heart disease- a position statement from the ESC Working Group on Valvular Heart Diseases.
- Eur Heart J. 2011.
- López J, Fernández-Hidalgo N, Revilla A, Vilacosta I, Tornos P, Almirante B, Sevilla T, Gómez I, Pozo E, Sarriá C, San Román JA. Internal and external validation of a model to predict adverse outcomes in patients with left-sided infective endocarditis. 2011 Feb 28. [Epub ahead of print.
- Fernández-Hidalgo N, Almirante B, Tornos P, González-Alujas MT, Planes AM, Galiñanes M, Pahissa A.Immediate and long-term outcome of left-sided infective endocarditis. A 12-year prospective study from a contemporary cohort in a referral hospital.Clin Microbiol Infect. 2012 Dec;18(12):E522-30. doi: 10.1111/1469-0691.12033. Epub 2012 Oct 18.
- Ribera A, Slof J, Andrea R, Falces C, Gutiérrez E, Del Valle-Fernández R, Morís-de la Tassa C, Mota P, Oteo JF, Cascant P, Altisent OA, Sureda C, Serra V, García-Del Blanco B, Tornos P, Garcia-Dorado D, Ferreira-González I.Transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement compared with surgical replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis and comparable risk: cost-utility and its determinants.Int J Cardiol. 2015 Mar 1;182:321-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.12.109. Epub 2014 Dec 27.
- Lancellotti P, Rosenhek R, Pibarot P, Iung B, Otto CM, Tornos P, Donal E, Prendergast B, Magne J, La Canna G, Piérard LA, Maurer G.ESC Working Group on Valvular Heart Disease position paper–heart valve clinics: organization, structure, and experiences.Eur Heart J. 2013 Jun;34(21):1597-606. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehs443. Epub 2013 Jan 4.
- Mutuberría-Urdaniz M, Rodríguez-Palomares JF, Ferreira I, Bañeras J, Teixidó G, Gutiérrez L, Zavala G, González-Alujas MT, Evangelista A, Tornos P, García-Dorado D. Non-obstructive prosthetic heart valve thrombosis (NOPVT): Really a benign entity?Int J Cardiol. 2015 Oct 15;197:16-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.06.021. Epub 2015 Jun 18.
- Pizzi, A. Roque, N. Fernández-Hidalgo, H Cuéllar-Calabria, I Ferreira-Gonzalez, MT. Gonzàlez-Alujas, G. Oristrell, L. Gracia-Sánchez, JJ. González ,J. Rodríguez-Palomares, M. Galiñanes, O. Maisterra-Santos, D. García-Dorado, J. Castell-Conesa, B Almirante, S. Aguadé-Bruix, P. Tornos Improving the diagnosis of infective endocarditis in prosthetic valves and intracardiac devices with 18F-FDG-PET/CT-Angiography: initial results at an infective endocarditis referral center. CIRCULATION 2015;132:1113-1126.
- Pizzi, Albert Roque, Hug Cuéllar-Calabria, Nuria Fernández-Hidalgo, Ignacio Ferreira-González, María T. González-Alujas, Alberto Igual-Barceló, David Garcia-Dorado, Benito Almirante, Joan Castell-Conesa, Manuel Escobar Amores, Pilar Tornos, Santiago Aguadé-Bruix. 18F-FDG-PET/CTA of Prosthetic Cardiac Valves and Valve-Tube Grafts. Infective Versus Inflammatory Patterns. J Am Coll Cardiol Img. 2016:9(1);82-85.
- Pizzi, L. Dos-Subira,, Albert Roque, Nuria Fernandez-Hidalgo, Hug Cuellar-Calabria, Antonia Pijuan Domenech, Maria T. Gonzalez-Alujas, M.T. Subirana-Domenech, Miranda-Barrio, Ignacio Ferreira-Gonzalez, Juan J. Gonzalez-Lopez, Albert Igual, Olga Maisterra-Santos, David Garcia-Dorado1,9, MD, PhD, Joan Castell-Conesa, Benito Almirante, Manuel Escobar Amores, Pilar Tornos, Santiago Aguade-Bruix. 18F-FDG-PET/CT angiography in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis in adult patients with congenital heart disease. IJC 2016.
Recent books:/chapters:
- Actualizacion en la endocarditis infecciosa. Almirante B and Tornos P ed.. Marge Medica books 2011
- ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine – 3rd Edition 2016/17 (edited by Prof. Thomas Luscher, Prof. John Camm, Prof. Gerald Maurer and Prof. Patrick Serruys) Chapter: Section 037: Infective endocarditis ¨Diagnosis¨. Fernandez-Hidalgo, MN Pizzi, P Tornos.
Invited presentations:
- 2000-2017: Yearly invited presentations at the ESCC
- 2000-2017:
- Invited presentations at EuroEcho, Acute Cardiac Care meeting
- Invited presentation AHA
- Invited presentations Congres de la Societe Francaise de Cardiology
- Invited presentations Sociedad Argentina de cardiologia
- Invited presentations Sociedad Chilena de cardiologia
- Invited presentation Turkish society of cardiology
- Invited presentation Portuguese Congres of Cardiology