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From: Pogeu Mahone  Read Replies (1) of 218057
 
Did you ever hear about The Butcher from Brazil? They had a PBS special about Harvard Cardio Surgeons leaving Boston for Brazil and complaining about being forced to go to the Brazilian butcher who was cutting off dead heart tissue and sewing them up. They came back to Boston bragging about what they learned.

And it changed Cardiology:O)

Working under primitive conditions in a small rural hospital in Brazil, a surgeon has developed a bold new operation for heart failure that supporters say promises ultimately to allow tens of thousands of people to resume daily activities, stop many medications and avoid transplants.

The operation defies conventional medical wisdom because it removes living tissue from the heart. The size of an enlarged heart is reduced by cutting out a large slice of living muscle from the main pumping chamber, which is then stitched together while the patient's heart is beating.

The surgeon, Dr. Randas J. V. Batista, says he has had excellent success in performing the operation on more than 300 patients since 1994 near Curitiba in southern Brazil. Yet august medical groups have rejected Dr. Batista's efforts to report the cases at medical meetings, and his only publications on the procedure are a paper written in Portuguese and photographs from a videotaped demonstration in an American video journal.


Several heart surgeons say they have come away amazed after watching Dr. Batista do the operation in Brazil or in visits to hospitals in the United States. After shedding their skepticism, several surgeons have performed a small number of the operations at hospitals in the United States, Britain, Italy and other countries.

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Jun 14, 1996 - The size of an enlarged heart is reduced by cutting out a large slice of living ... that an operation that removes functioning muscle, though abnormal, works. ... The Brazilian surgeon has told visitors that his interest in cardiology began as ... Although doctors in the United States often remove dead portions or ...
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