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    By World Series time, the coldness and discomfort that New York Yankee Southpaw Whitey Ford had often felt in his left hand became a strength-robbing cramp afflicting his whole arm. But not until…

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    • 0️⃣2️⃣ Days to 60 Years: #In1964 NY Yankees pitcher undergoes surgery with Dr. Cooley in Houston. The left-handed pitcher, Whitey Ford, had been experiencing numbness in his left hand caused by a vascular issue. Read more: https://t.co/HrRx0apRli #60YearsOfExcellence https://t.co/jAE19HwxuD

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    Dr. Cooley’s performances sometimes went beyond the operating theater. In the summer of 1965, for example, he and fellow cardiac surgeon Dr. Grady Hallman decided to form a band—a group of physician musicians who played stringed instruments—that they would fittingly name the “The Heart Strings.” Hallman, the band’s leader, had played trombone in The University of Texas (UT) Longhorn Band and…

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    • 0️⃣3️⃣ Days to 60 Years: #In1965 Dr. Denton Cooley learns to play upright bass and joins Dr. Grady Hallman’s band of doctors. The ensemble grew into a full swing band and was renamed the Heartbeats. Read more: https://t.co/xWQN8D3T2v #60YearsOfExcellence https://t.co/qbJBjMr4Mg

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    Doctors at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital here today transferred the heart of a young woman…

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    • 0️⃣6️⃣ Days to 60 Years: #In1968 Dr Denton A Cooley performs the first successful heart transplant in the US. It was the 9th in the world and the 1st in the US where the patient returned home. Read more from @HoustonChron: https://t.co/LtitncO1KM #DentonACooley #60YearsOfExcellence https://t.co/M7o5qO9grg

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    Texas Heart Institute founder Dr. Denton A. Cooley performed the world’s first total artificial heart implant on April 4, 1969, launching the quest to build a total artificial heart that lasts to this day.  The device, developed by Dr. Domingo Liotta, was implanted in a 47-year-old patient with severe heart failure. The patient lived for nearly three days until a human heart was available for…

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    • 0️⃣7️⃣ Days to 60 Years: #In1969 Dr. Denton A. Cooley performs the world's first total artificial heart implantation. The artificial heart, developed by Dr. Domingo Liotta, was air driven and implanted on April 4, 1969. Read more: https://t.co/DDOVW6s6I9 #60YearsOfExcellence https://t.co/ez7bJSJGGi

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    The School of Perfusion Technology continues to train perfusionists in the use of the heart-lung machine, with over 900 graduates since it opened in 1971. It was the first accredited perfusion school established in the United States and remains one of only 17 programs of its kind in the country.

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    • 0️⃣9️⃣ Days to 60 Years: #In1971 the School of Perfusion Technology begins training perfusionists. 📷: Diane Clark, one of those students, and Charles Reed, program director, with their textbook “Cardiovascular Perfusion.” More grads: https://t.co/Rze3un7AlD #60YearsOfExcellence https://t.co/SfSXWAGa39

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    During a time when many avenues were closed to him because of his race, Dr. Norman, a self-proclaimed workaholic, and perpetual overachiever was already on the Harvard faculty after earning his bachelor’s degree at Howard (matriculating at the age of 16), his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and gaining even more experience and training in New York City, the US Navy, Michigan, and England.

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    • 1️⃣0️⃣ Days to 60 Years: #In1972 the Cullen Cardiovascular Surgical Research Laboratories are established. The department has tested many of the devices featured in this series. Read more about Dr. John C. Norman, the first director: https://t.co/d1AfCtio2R #60YearsOfExcellence https://t.co/cOxmOLudqH

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    ay is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Exercise is important to every aspect of health, including the heart, and what better way to enjoy exercising than through a sport like tennis? It gets you outside with others, yet at a safe distance. For those reasons, interest in tennis has increased over the last year—so much so that racquets can be hard to find.

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    • 1️⃣1️⃣ Days to 60 Years: #In1973 Cooley plays tennis in the Astrodome against Wimbledon champion Bobby Riggs. Cooley was an avid tennis player. Read more: https://t.co/2fcwd5Lnvl #TheNextFirst #TexasHeartInstitute #TexasHeartMedicalGroup #DentonACooley #60YearsOfExcellence https://t.co/GKhwLk1Jpy

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    In 1971, the National Basketball Association’s San Diego Rockets were purchased by new ownership group Texas Sports Investments, who moved the franchise to Houston. The city, however, lacked an indoor arena suitable to host a major sports franchise. The largest arena in the city at the time was 34-year-old Sam Houston Coliseum, but the Rockets would not even consider using it as a temporary…

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    • 1️⃣3️⃣ Days to 60 Years: #In1975 the Summit sports and entertainment center’s “Heart to Heart” opening gala benefits THI. It was the very first event at the new arena that was the home of the Houston Rockets for many years. Read more: https://t.co/s9hCaZzLwu #60YearsOfExcellence https://t.co/wyy8AJ7NB5

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    During its early years, THI had an active foreign practice. Dr. Denton A. Cooley was contacted frequently by patients from other countries who needed open heart surgery but who could not afford it, or who were languishing on a long waitlist. In May 1976, Dutch Heart Patients Association Chairman Henk Fievet and Dutch cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Peter van der Schaar met with Dr. Cooley to discuss…

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    • 1️⃣4️⃣ Days to 60 Years: #In1976 the “Dutch Airlift” begins with the first group of patients flown in from the Netherlands. The program brought about 25 patients a month to Houston for heart surgery. Read more: https://t.co/YADgouDClA #60YearsOfExcellence https://t.co/kpIlAZvoM3