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> Denton Cooley, the technically brilliant and unusually dexterous Texas surgeon who performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States and the world's first implantation of a wholly artificial heart, died Friday.
> Dubbed "Dr. Wonderful" by the media, Cooley was the leading expert on congenital heart defects in children, pioneered use of the heart-lung machine that made open-heart surgery possible, co-developed a technique for repairing torn aortic aneurysms, developed the techniques of "Bloodless" heart surgery and was one of the first and most successful proponents of the coronary artery bypass graft for treating blocked blood vessels.
> "What he did, more than anyone else, was make heart surgery safe," heart surgeon Dr. O. Howard Frazier of the Texas Heart Institute in Houston told The Times in 1988.
> In December of that same year, Barnard reported that he had performed a heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa.
> Cooley's strained relationship with DeBakey came to a head on April 4, 1969, when, unable to obtain a donor heart for a transplant, he implanted an artificial heart into 47-year-old Haskell Karp.
> In 1944, Blalock permitted him to assist in the first surgery to correct the congenital heart defect of a "Blue baby," whose malfunctioning heart prevented him from getting adequate oxygen.
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