The Batista procedure

Partial left ventriculectomy--the Batista procedure.

How to make a failing heart pump better: the Batista procedure and its competitors.

More than a year after the Batista procedure jumped into national headlines, experts at the 71st Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association meeting in Dallas, Tex, reported both good and bad news about the radically different surgery. Patrick McCarthy, MD, cardiovascular surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, said 72% of patients who had the procedure have survived $2 ye...

Modified Batista Procedure for Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Report of a Case

The surgical indications for dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) remain controversial, not including cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. We describe a case of idiopathic DCM that underwent successful surgical treatment using a modified left ventriculectomy, modification of the Batista procedure. The patient was a 63-year-old man who suffered from heart failure, New York Heart A...

Facundo Batista: watching B cells spread and grab antigens

Early in an immune response, B cells latch on to antigens embedded in the surface membranes of follicular den-dritic cells and macrophages. Engagement with antigen spurs a flurry of activity at the point of contact on the B cell surface—a phenomenon that Facundo Batista is documenting in molecular detail. During his post-doctoral research, Batista discovered that B cell receptors (BCRs) must ex...

Batista operation with aortic valve replacement for valvular cardiomyopathy.

We performed a successful Batista operation with aortic valve replacement (AVR), graft replacement of the ascending aorta, and tricuspid annuloplasty for a patient with valvular cardiomyopathy with severe aortic stenosis, an ascending aortic aneurysm, and grade 3 tricuspid regurgitation.