Dr. Denton Arthur Cooley, legendary founder of the Texas Heart Institute and arguably the most gifted heart surgeon of his time, died Friday. He was 96. Cooley had been in declining health the ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Dr. Denton Cooley was a trailblazer on the cutting edge of heart medicine. The world-famous Houston heart surgeon discovered many techniques still used in cardiovascular surgery.

Dr. Denton Cooley for Q&A, framed between two of his inventions, a sternotomy knife used to open the chest during the earliest open heart operations, and a head lamp July 23, 2008, in Houston, TX.

“Denton’s pioneering contributions to medicine are, of course, legend,” said former President George H. W. Bush, who lives in Houston, in a statement. Dr. Cooley died at his home surrounded ...

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Famed heart surgeon Denton Cooley was remembered Monday as a pioneer whose towering achievements masked a regular guy who loved sports and corny jokes and always put his patients first. In a low ...

Once, as a defendant in ea medical liability trial, Dr. Denton Cooley was asked if he considered himself the best heart surgeon in the world. When Cooley answered in the affirmative, the lawyer ...

Denton Cooley, MD, the surgeon who performed the first successful human heart transplant in the United States, died Nov. 15 at age 96.

Dr. Denton A. Cooley, the renowned surgeon who was the first to implant a totally artificial heart in a patient and in the process set off one of medicine's greatest feuds, died Friday at his home ...