Italian world record with heart surgery for 100-year-old man
Italy has claimed a world record in the field of surgery with a recent lifesaving open-heart operation on a 100-year-old man. The unnamed patient, a former doctor, was saved with a procedure never before used in a person of his age, Florence medical experts confirmed.
According to the ANSA news agency, the operation, using the implantation of an artery-widening balloon and three stents, was carried out at Careggi Hospital in Florence.
The patient, an ex-urologist born in February 1911, was said to be "doing well". The man had worked until he was 80.
