Some Thoughts About the Historic Events That Led to the First Clinical Implantation of a Total Artificial Heart

Authors

Denton A Cooley

Author Biographical Info

Dr. Denton A. Cooley, the founder of the Texas Heart Institute, attended the University of Texas and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he graduated in 1944. After serving in the Army Medical Corps and studying with Lord Russell Brock in London, he returned to his hometown of Houston, Texas to teach surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in the 1950s. The Texas Heart Institute was founded on August 3, 1962 in order to research and treat cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. See more at Denton A. Cooley, MD papers.

Publication Date

2013

Journal

The Texas Heart Journal

PMID

23678207

Publication Date(s)

2013

Language

English

PMCID

PMC3649780

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

2013

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Post-Print

Published Open-Access

yes

Keywords

Animals, Biomedical Research, Cardiac Surgical Procedures, Cardiology, Heart, Artificial, History, 20th Century, Humans, Prosthesis Implantation, Russia, United States

Copyright

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