Randas José Vilela Batista (Passos, Minas Gerais, 1947) is a Brazilian medical doctor and cardiac surgeon.
Twelve years later, after passing through Canada, England and France, he would end up with a postgraduate degree in cardiac surgery.
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.
[7] He is also the president of Fundação do Coração Vilela Batista (Vilela Batista Heart Foundation) that, in partnership with the Japanese holding group Tokushukai [ja], built in the city of Apucarana, Paraná, the Hospital do Coração Torao Tokuda (Torao Tokuda Heart Hospital), which started up in 2012[8] and closed in 2015, having operated only with an outpatient clinic during that period.