{{Short description|Brazilian cardiac surgeon}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2012}} {{Infobox person | name = Randas José Vilela Batista | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|03|16}}<ref name="dates">{{cite news |title=Homenagem aos exemplos éticos da Medicina alcança duas centenas de profissionais paranaenses |date=July 1, 2022 |url=https://www.crmpr.org.br/Homenagem-aos-exemplos-eticos-da-Medicina-alcanca-duas-centenas-de-profissionais-paranaens-11-57881.shtml |work=Conselho Regional de Medicina do Estado do Paraná |trans-work=Regional Medical Council of the State of Paraná |publisher=Conselho Regional de Medicina do Estado do Paraná |accessdate=January 14, 2026 |language=Portuguese |trans-title=Tribute to ethical examples in medicine reaches two hundred professionals in Paraná}}</ref> | birth_place = Passos, Minas Gerais | citizenship = Brazilian | education = {{nowrap|Universidade Federal do Paraná (MD)}} | alma_mater = | occupation = Medical doctor | organization = Vilela Batista Heart Foundation | known_for = Batista procedure | awards = }} '''Randas José Vilela Batista''' (Passos, March 16, 1947<ref name="dates"/>) is a Brazilian medical doctor and cardiac surgeon.
== Early life and education == He graduated in medicine from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in 1972.<ref name="dates"/> After that, he moved to United States to do residency. Twelve years later, after passing through Canada, England and France, he would end up with a postgraduate degree in cardiac surgery. Then he returned to teach medicine in Brazil.
==Cardiology== Doctor Randas developed eight techniques for cardiac care,<ref>{{cite news |title=Coluna Audioretratos - Histórias de vida no rádio - Randas Batista (reprise) |first=Patrícia |last=Zanin |date=October 26, 2013 |url=http://www.uelfm.uel.br/arquivo.php?id=11617 |work=UEL FM |trans-work=State University of Londrina FM |publisher=Imaginacom Plataformas Tecnológicas Ltda. |accessdate=February 24, 2022 |language=Portuguese |trans-title=Column Audioportrait - Life stories on the radio - Randas Batista (rerun)}}</ref> considered revolutionary. The best known of these is the "Batista procedure", that removes a piece of the dilated heart (partial left ventriculectomy) to treat heart failure patients. Thus, the method would exclude the need of a transplant.<ref name="Apuc">{{cite news |title="Hospital do Coração" aguarda equipamentos para ativar ambulatório |author=Press office |url=http://www.apucarana.pr.gov.br/noticia/7543-hospital+do+coracao+aguarda+equipamentos+para+ativar+ambulatorio |publisher=Apucarana City Hall |location=Apucarana, Brazil |date=June 17, 2010 |accessdate=July 9, 2010 |language=Portuguese |trans-title="Heart Hospital" awaits equipment to open outpatient clinic |quote=The project is a proposal of the physician and president of the foundation, Randas José Vilela Batista, considered one of the most important heart surgeons in the country, and internationally recognized after the invention of a method named "Batista Surgery", which eliminates the need for organ transplantation.}}{{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> The procedure became famous around the world, but there are some questions about its efficiency. According to information from the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, the technique has become obsolete. Four years since the first operation, only 25% of the patients survived.<ref name="Veja">{{cite news |title=Holofote |first=Sérgio |last=Sade |url=http://veja.abril.com.br/180401/holofote.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722052811/http://veja.abril.com.br/180401/holofote.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 22, 2014 |work=VEJA |trans-work=SEE |publisher=Editora Abril S.A. |issue=1696 |date=April 18, 2001 |accessdate=February 24, 2022 |language=Portuguese |trans-title=Spotlight}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Batista procedure an 'apparent failure' |first=Susan |last=Jeffrey |url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/786818 |publisher=Medscape |date=December 4, 2000 |accessdate=May 27, 2015 |url-access=registration }}</ref>
Randas does not consider these data real. According to him, data from Instituto do Coração (InCor), which performs the surgery, indicates that survival 5 years after surgery is of 60%. He also suggests the reason why, in the United States, they do not perform procedures with the name "Batista Surgery": the technique is considered experimental there. In this way, the public authorities would not pay for the surgery, leaving to the interested patient the option to change the terminology to "ventricular aneurysm resection", which in practice is the same procedure, to have the treatment paid by the U.S. Government.
The techniques invented by Batista have rendered him honors in Brazil, European countries and the United States. He was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen by the Municipal Chamber of Campina Grande do Sul<ref>{{cite web |title=LEI Nº 5/94 |url=https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/pr/c/campina-grande-do-sul/lei-ordinaria/1994/1/5/lei-ordinaria-n-5-1994-concede-o-titulo-de-cidadao-honorario-de-campina-grande-do-sul-ao-senhor-randas-vilella-batista-e-da-outras-providencias |website=LeisMunicipais |trans-website=MunicipalLaws |publisher=Leis Ltda. |trans-title=LAW No. 5/94 |language=Portuguese |access-date=January 14, 2026 |quote=GRANTS THE TITLE OF HONORARY CITIZEN OF CAMPINA GRANDE DO SUL TO MR. RANDAS VILELLA BATISTA AND MAKES OTHER PROVISIONS.}}</ref> and the Legislative Assembly of Paraná.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lei Ordinária Nº 11541, de 2 de outubro de 1996 |url=https://leisestaduais.com.br/pr/lei-ordinaria-n-11541-1996-parana-concede-o-titulo-de-cidadao-honorario-do-parana-ao-dr-randas-jose-vilela-batista |website=LeisEstaduais |trans-website=StateLaws |publisher=Leis Ltda. |trans-title=Ordinary Law No. 11541, of October 2, 1996 |language=Portuguese |access-date=January 14, 2026 |quote=GRANTS THE TITLE OF HONORARY CITIZEN OF PARANÁ TO DR. RANDAS JOSÉ VILELA BATISTA.}}</ref> He also had his name engraved on a memorial on the island of Kos (which honors the father of medicine, Hippocrates), in Greece,<ref name="Gazeta">{{cite news |title=O que se passa na sociedade |first=Juril |last=Carnasciali |url=http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/colunistas/conteudo.phtml?id=753875 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121231114751/http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/colunistas/conteudo.phtml?id=753875 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 31, 2012 |publisher=Gazeta do Povo |date=April 6, 2008 |access-date=July 9, 2010 |language=Portuguese |trans-title=What is happening in society |quote=In late April, the doctor participates in the 18th World Congress of Cardiac Surgery, in Greece, where he will have his name engraved on a memorial on the island of Kos, in honor of Hippocrates, the father of medicine, award of great prominence in the medical area(…) }}</ref> and in United States he was considered one of the fifteen world heroes of medicine in a list of ''Time'' magazine<ref>{{cite news |title=Too Big a Heart |first=Derek |last=Gordon |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,987098,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308003849/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,987098,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 8, 2008 |publisher=Time |date=October 1, 1997 |accessdate=November 18, 2012}}</ref> and CNN.<ref>{{cite news |title=Heroes of Medicine: Dr. Randas Batista |url=http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/medicine/video.batista.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110751/http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/medicine/video.batista.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |agency=CNN |accessdate=November 18, 2012}}</ref> He is also the president of ''Fundação do Coração Vilela Batista'' (Vilela Batista Heart Foundation) that, in partnership with the Japanese holding group {{ill|Tokushukai|ja|徳洲会}}, built in the city of Apucarana, Paraná, the ''Hospital do Coração Torao Tokuda'' (Torao Tokuda Heart Hospital), which started up in 2012<ref>{{cite news |title=Hospital do Coração inicia com ambulatório neste sábado |date=February 25, 2012 |url=https://tnonline.uol.com.br/noticias/apucarana/45,121809,25,02,hospital-do-coracao-inicia-com-ambulatorio-neste-sabado |work=TNOnline |accessdate=February 24, 2022 |language=Portuguese |trans-title=Heart Hospital starts with outpatient clinic this Saturday}}</ref> and closed in 2015, having operated only with an outpatient clinic during that period.<ref>{{cite news |title=Médico negocia venda do Hospital do Coração em Apucarana |date=March 3, 2018 |url=https://tnonline.uol.com.br/noticias/apucarana/45,461673,03,03,medico-negocia-venda-do-hospital-do-coracao-em-apucarana |work=TNOnline |accessdate=February 24, 2022 |language=Portuguese |trans-title=Doctor negotiates sale of the Heart Hospital in Apucarana}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://discovermagazine.com/1997/jan/07-pieceofmyheart1018 Piece of My Heart] Article about Randas and the Batista procedure at Discover Magazine. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120905042419/http://www.ctsnet.org/sections/videosection/innovators/2012innov_batistaR.html Randas J. Vilela Batista, MD] Interview with doctor Randas Batista at The Cardiothoracic Surgery Network (archived). *{{in lang|pt}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20121208064928/http://www.redetec.org.br/inventabrasil/randas.htm Operação Batista] Article about the Batista procedure at Technology & Innovation Network of Rio de Janeiro (archived). *{{in lang|pt}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20090404113925/http://veja.abril.com.br/171297/p_009.html Sou doido mesmo] Randas interview for the magazine Veja (archived).
{{DEFAULTSORT:Batista, Randas}} Category:Brazilian cardiologists Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category:People from Passos, Minas Gerais Category:Federal University of Paraná alumni Category:People from Apucarana