Dr. Denton Cooley, right, and wife Louise meet with Pat and retired Judge John V. Singleton during the 90th birthday celebration for the former chief judge of the Southern District of Texas at ...

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.

HOUSTON – Dr. Denton Cooley, a Houston native and a pioneer of heart transplants, died Friday. He was 96. Born in 1920, Cooley graduated with highest honors from the University of Texas Austin ...

Dr. Denton Cooley, a Johns Hopkins graduate who performed some of the earliest heart transplants and implanted the world’s first artificial heart in 1969, died Nov. 18. By Juan A Lozano UPDATED ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Denton Cooley, the world-renowned cardiovascular surgeon and founder of the Texas Heart Institute, died Friday at age 96. Cooley performed the first successful heart transplant in the U.S. in ...

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 ...

Pioneering heart surgeon Denton A. Cooley, a 1944 graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who performed some of the nation’s first heart transplants and implanted the world’s first ...