Texas Heart Institute

Denton Cooley, a renowned heart surgeon who performed world's first artificial heart transplant in the US, has passed away at the age of 96.

Two Houston surgeons successfully implanted the world's first continuous-flow artificial heart in a 55-year-old patient, a significant advance that promises a smaller and much more durable alternative to existing artificial hearts.Dr Bud Frazier and Billy Cohn took out the dead heart of Craig A Lewis on March 10 at the Texas Heart Institute.Texas H...

Denton Cooley, a renowned heart surgeon who performed world's first artificial heart transplant in the US, has passed away at the age of 96.

Two Houston surgeons successfully implanted the world's first continuous-flow artificial heart in a 55-year-old patient, a significant advance that promises a smaller and much more durable alternative to existing artificial hearts.Dr Bud Frazier and Billy Cohn took out the dead heart of Craig A Lewis on March 10 at the Texas Heart Institute.Texas H...