Denton Cooley was an American cardiothoracic surgeon based in Houston, Texas, who founded and served as surgeon-in-chief of the Texas Heart Institute after training and practicing cardiovascular surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. In 1969 he implanted a total artificial heart, designed by Domingo Liotta, into a patient named Haskell Karp, who survived on the device for 65 hours before receiving a donor heart, a first in medical history. Over his career Cooley and his colleagues also developed artificial heart valves that helped cut open-heart surgery mortality from about 70 percent to 8 percent between 1962 and 1967, and he pioneered bloodless open-heart techniques for patients who could not accept blood transfusions for religious reasons.
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In 1969 he implanted the first total artificial heart, which kept a patient alive 65 hours until a donor heart was found.
In 1969 Denton Cooley, a cardiothoracic surgeon in Houston, Texas, implanted a total artificial heart designed by Domingo Liotta into a patient named Haskell Karp. Karp survived on the device for 65 hours before receiving a donor heart, which was a first in medical history.
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Denton Arthur Cooley (August 22, 1920 - November 18, 2016) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart.
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Denton Arthur Cooley (August 22, 1920 - November 18, 2016) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart.
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Denton Arthur Cooley (August 22, 1920 - November 18, 2016) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart.
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Denton Arthur Cooley (August 22, 1920 - November 18, 2016) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart.
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Denton Arthur Cooley (August 22, 1920, November 18, 2016) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart.
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