Correspondence, C. Walton Lillehei to Denton Cooley in response to Cooley's report of first successful repair of ventricular septal defect
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Title
Correspondence, C. Walton Lillehei to Denton Cooley in response to Cooley's report of first successful repair of ventricular septal defect
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
C. Walton Lillehei
Source
"C, 1957," Box 91, C. Walton Lillehei papers, uarc2000-7, University of Minnesota Archives
Publisher
University of Minnesota
Date
24-Apr-56
Contributor
Denton Cooley
Rights
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Format
Document
Language
eng
Identifier
oh0148
Coverage
Open Heart Surgery
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Paper
Citation
C. Walton Lillehei, “Correspondence, C. Walton Lillehei to Denton Cooley in response to Cooley's report of first successful repair of ventricular septal defect,” Gallery, accessed October 13, 2024, https://gallerytemp.reclaim.hosting/items/show/3234.