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Pilar Tornos

Researcher at Autonomous University of Barcelona

Publications -  109
Citations -  19212

Pilar Tornos is an academic researcher from Autonomous University of Barcelona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Infective endocarditis & Endocarditis. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 103 publications receiving 17891 citations. Previous affiliations of Pilar Tornos include Hebron University.

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Mosaic Bioprostheses May Mimic Infective Endocarditis by PET/CTA: Trust the Uptake Pattern to Avoid Misdiagnosis

TL;DR: Noninfected prosthetic heart valves often display a characteristic pattern of diffuse and homogeneous distribution and mild fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake when evaluated by 18F-FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography angiography (PET/CTA) at least during 1 year after implantation.
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Nuevos aspectos de la valvulopatía aórtica

TL;DR: El interes por el estudio de esta lesion valvular habia quedado aparcado: se decia conocer bien su etiologia, se disponia de herramientas para cuantificarla y se tenia un cierto acuerdo sobre el momento de indicar la intervencion quirurgica.
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Surgery and outcome of infective endocarditis in octogenarians: prospective data from the ESC EORP EURO-ENDO registry

Bülent Mutlu, +900 more
- 15 Mar 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this article , a prospective multicentre ESC EORP EURO-ENDO registry was used to assess the prognostic role of valvular surgery depending on age.
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Enfermedad valvular en mujeres

TL;DR: Las mujeres tienen menores grados de calcificacion y sus ventriculos responden con mayores incrementos de gradiente e hipercontractilidad ante valores similares de reduccion del area valvular, y se acepta that el sexo femenino tiene una mayor mortalidad en la cirugia cardiaca, tanto en cirugio coronaria como en cirUGia valVular.