Correspondence, Denton Cooley to C. Walton Lillehei reporting successful repair of ventricular septal defect in Texas
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Title
Correspondence, Denton Cooley to C. Walton Lillehei reporting successful repair of ventricular septal defect in Texas
Subject
Open Heart Surgery
Description
Denton A. Cooley (1920- ) received his medical training at Johns Hopkins University where he obtained a doctor of medicine degree in 1944. While at Johns Hopkins, Cooley assisted Dr. Alfred Blalock in the first successful insertion of a Blalock-Taussig shunt to palliate symptoms associated with Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect. In 1951 Cooley became associate professor of surgery at Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and was a member of the faculty there for 18 years.
Creator
Denton A. Cooley
Source
"C, 1957," Box 91, C. Walton Lillehei papers, uarc2000-7, University of Minnesota Archives
Publisher
University of Minnesota
Date
16-Apr-56
Contributor
C. Walton Lillehei
Rights
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Format
Document
Language
eng
Identifier
oh0149
Coverage
Open Heart Surgery
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Paper
Citation
Denton A. Cooley, “Correspondence, Denton Cooley to C. Walton Lillehei reporting successful repair of ventricular septal defect in Texas,” Gallery, accessed April 23, 2024, https://gallerytemp.reclaim.hosting/items/show/3233.