title: Some thoughts about the historic events that led to the first clinical implantation of a total artificial heart.
authors.affiliation: Texas Heart Institute, St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
authors.forename: Denton A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Cooley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation; D002309:Cardiology / Q000266:history*; D006354:Heart, Artificial / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D019919:Prosthesis Implantation / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation; D012426:Russia; D014481:United States
keywords: Heart failure/therapy; heart transplantation/history; heart-assist devices; history of medicine, 20th century; history, 20th century