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Dr Denton Cooley, the astute Houston heart surgeon is dead on HWN HIGHLIGHT
Over four decades, Cooley performed an estimated 65,000 open-heart surgeries at the institute, drawing patients from around the globe. At one time, his team was handling a tenth of all such operations in the United States.
Cooley’s surgeries included two particularly noteworthy ones – in 1968, the first transplant of a human heart in which the patient lived more than a few weeks; and in 1969, the first implantation of a mechanical heart. The latter, a Kitty Hawk-type of advance, set in motion one of Houston’s signature stories, a rift with Michael E. DeBakey immortalized in a Life cover story as The Feud.
At the height of his career, he was probably the best known heart surgeon in the world,” said Dr. David Cooper, a professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Open Heart: The Radical Surgeons who Revolutionized Medicine.
Cooley stood above other surgeons because of his speed and technical prowess, a combination once described as “Woolworth volume and Tiffany quality.
At the beginning of his career, the device that keeps patients alive during cardiac surgery — the heart-lung machine — was still in its infancy, a crude instrument that gave surgeons little time to complete an operation. Cooley performed with such precision that he demonstrated procedures such as bypasses could be safely done. He was among a small group of doctors who ushered heart surgery from a niche field into mainstream medicine.
I was talking to a pilot friend of mine one time — he flew 747s about Charles Lindbergh," said O.H. "Bud" Frazier, another pioneer of heart surgery at the Texas Heart Institute. "My friend said there's not a pilot alive today that could fly the Spirit of St. Louis by dead reckoning. Dr. Cooley is sort of the same way. There's not a surgeon alive today that could do what he could do.
Cooley was a native Houstonian, who would witness the city’s transformation from a provincial afterthought, known for its proximity to oil fields and refineries, to a metropolis famous not only as a world energy center but as a destination for cutting-edge medicine.
He was born on Aug. 22, 1920, to Ralph Clarkson Cooley and Mary Fraley Cooley, whose families were long established in Houston.
A grandfather had helped found the Houston Heights neighborhood in 1890, and his father was a prominent dentist. The physician who delivered Cooley was Dr. Ernst William Bertner, who would later found the Texas Medical Center.
Source: Chron, HWN Africa.
: 2016-11-25 18:18:27 | : 1559
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