Standing on the shoulders of Denton Cooley
Journal Title: Chettinad Health City Medical Journal - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
On November 16th 2016, cardiac surgery lost the last of its pioneering surgeons. Denton Cooley (Fig 1) who was present at the ‘dawn of cardiac surgery’. This was when Dr. Alfred Blalock performed the “blue baby” operation. He strode like a colossus through the mete- oric rise of cardiac surgery. He was at the forefront of every new development, stringing together a number of firsts and adding to the cardiac and vascular surgical literature.
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Sanjay Theodore
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