Where does Dr. Pilar Tornos Mas practice?

Dr. Pilar Tornos Mas practices at Hospital Quirónsalud Barcelona

What is the specialty of Dr. Pilar Tornos Mas?

Dr. Pilar Tornos Mas specialty is Cardiac Surgeon

What is the experience of Dr. Pilar Tornos Mas?

Dr. Pilar Tornos Mas is Cardiac Surgeon with 35 years of experience.

What does a cardiac surgeon do?

A cardiac surgeon is a specialist who operates on the heart, lungs and other thoracic (chest) organs and they also diagnose and treat diseases of these organs.

What are the typical symptoms of heart diseases?

The typicals symptoms include Chest pain, chest tightness, chest pressure, chest discomfort Shortness of breath associated with Pain, numbness, weakness or coldness in the legs or arms.

Which tests/ investigations are generally required by Cardiac surgeons?

Investigations like blood reports, Chest x ray, Electrocardiogram, Pulmonary function test, Carotid Dopping, Vein mapping, Trans-esphogeal echocardiogram, Heart Catheterization, and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging would be required.

What is the difference between a Cardiac Surgeon and a Cardiologist?

Cardiologist perform procedures in cath lab like Balloon angioplasty, Coronary and left ventricular digital angiography, Right and left heart catheterization, Rotational artherectomy, Stent implantation etc whereas a Cardiac surgeon perform surgery of the heart and chest.

How long is the stay in hospital for a heart surgery?

Stay in the hospital is usually for 7 – 10 days

Dr. Pilar Tornos Mas, Cardiac Surgeon in Barcelona, Spain - Appointment

About Dr. Pilar Tornos Mas

Dr. Pilar Tornos Mas is a cardiologist with more than 35 years of expertise in this field.
Services provided by her includes cardiological procedurs and issues related to the heart, and many more.
In 1974, she got an Outstanding and Extraordinary Award from the Autonomous University of Barcelona for her medical degree. In 1977, she got her Doctor of Medicine degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, as well as the Outstanding Laude and Extraordinary Award.
She was honoured by the College of Physicians of Barcelona with the Professional Excellence Award (2006).
She is a member of the task force that was responsible for the development of European guidelines for endocarditis (2007 and 2015) and valvular heart disease (2007 and 2015).

Hospital

Hospital Quirónsalud Barcelona

Location

Barcelona, Spain

Special Interest

Cardiology

List Of Treatments

Arrhythmia Treatment with Ablation and Pacemakers
Coronary Artery Surgery
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Treatment
Cardiac OPD Procedures
ECG-Treadmill Test TMT
24 Hour Holter Monitoring
Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM)
Echocardiography with Color Doppler
Stress Echocardiographyn
Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) Test
Thallium Test - Nuclear Stress Test
64 Slice CT Angiography
PET Scan
Off Pump beating CABG LV restoration
surgery
Valve Repair Replacement
Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
Ross Procedure
Cardiac Tumour Treatment
Aortic Dissection Repair Surgery
Minimal access surgeries for valves
ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
Neonatal and Infant cardiac surgeries
Complex congenital heart surgeriesg
TAPVC - Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection Repair Arterial Switch
Single Ventricle Defects Surgery
ECMO Support
heart disease
Device Closure- ASD VSD
Balloon Septostomy
Balloon Valvuloplasty - Aortic
Pulmonary and Mitral
Fetal Echocardiogram
Coronary Angiogram
Peripheral Angiogram
PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
Coronary Angioplasty
Aortic Stent Grafting
EPS-Electrophysiological
Radiofrequency Ablation
PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant - Single Chamber
Biventricular Pacing
AICD
PTMC - Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
Heart Bypass Surgery (CABG)
Angiography
Aortic Valve Replacement
Mitral Valve Replacement
VSD Closure (Adult) Surgery
Heart Double Valve Replacement
PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant - Double Chamber
CRT- D Implant (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)
PDA Device Closure
Single Bypass and Valve Replacement
Valve Replacement
Congenital Heart Disorder CHD
Heart Bypass - Minimally Invasive CABG
Heart Implants
Heart Surgery
Rotational Atherectomy
Redo CABG
Angioplasty - 1 Stent
Angioplasty - 2 Stent
Aortic Valve replacement - Mechanical Valve
Aortic Valve replacement - Tissue Valve
Mitral Valve replacement - Mechanical Valve
Mitral Valve replacement - Tissue Valve
Aortic Valve Repair
Mitral Valve Repair
VP Shunting - Programmable Device
AV Canal repair
Bentall procedure
PDA Ligation
CRT - D (MRI Compatible)
CRT - D (MRI Non-Compatible)
CRT - P
Transarterial Radioembolization - TARE
ICD Implantation
Cardiac catheterization
Balloon mitral valvotomy
Truncus Arterious Repair
Cardiac ablation
TAVI
LVAD

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Work Experience of Dr. Pilar Tornos Mas

Consultant, Hospital Quirónsalud Barcelona

Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Dr. Pilar Tornos Mas's

MD, 1977, Autonomous University of Barcelona

, 1974, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Outstanding and extraordinary award. 1974 Outstanding Laude and Extraordinary Award. 1977 Chair Working Group of Valve Diseases. European Society of Cardiology (2008-10). President of the Catalan Society of Cardiology (2002-2004). Award for Professional Excellence of the College of Physicians of Barcelona (2006). Member of the task I forced the drafting of European guides for endocarditis (2007 and 2015) and valvular heart disease (2007 and 2015).

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.