Dr. Richard James Battafarano MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
22 S Greene St Baltimore MD, 21201About
Dr. Richard Battafarano is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Battafarano specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Battafarano typically treats conditions like heart disease and lung disease. This class of surgeon can also include cardiac surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, congenital heart surgeons and general thoracic surgeons.
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Role of nitric oxide during sepsis.
- Endovascular lung perfusion using high-dose cisplatin: uptake and DNA adduct formation in an animal model.
- Down-regulation of beta catenin inhibits the growth of esophageal carcinoma cells.
- Optimal management of patients with non-small cell lung cancer with ipsilateral mediastinal lymph node metastases.
- Large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung.
- Large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung: an aggressive neuroendocrine lung cancer.
- A clinical model to estimate recurrence risk in resected stage I non-small cell lung cancer.
- Management of complications of lung resection. Introduction.
- Clinical images. Massive Meckel's enterolith mimicking urachal carcinoma.
- Loss of p53, rather than beta-catenin overexpression, induces survivin-mediated resistance to apoptosis in an esophageal cancer cell line.
- Outcomes after trimodality therapy for esophageal cancer: the impact of histology on failure patterns.
- The RNA-binding protein HuR stabilizes survivin mRNA in human oesophageal epithelial cells.
- Curcumin induces cell death in esophageal cancer cells through modulating Notch signaling.
- The RNA-binding protein CUG-BP1 increases survivin expression in oesophageal cancer cells through enhanced mRNA stability.
- The goal of esophagogastrectomy for patients with esophageal cancer: minimally invasive or maximally effective?: comment on "evidence to support the use of minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer".
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