Italian doctors performed a life-saving, open-heart procedure on a 100-year-old patient, a former doctor himself, at Careggi Hospital - setting the new world record for the Oldest Open Heart Surgery Patient.
The Guinness world record for the Oldest heart surgery patient was set by Herbert Carrington who, received a Medtronic Hancock II tissue valve when aged 94 years 129 days.
Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the Oldest heart bypass surgery patient, set by Dorothy Blockwell, who had quadruple coronary artery bypass graft surgery performed on her at Papworth Hospital, Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, UK, at the age of 85 years 279 days.
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.
Florence medical experts said the procedure had never before been used on a patient his age.
The world record operation involved the implantation of an artery-widening balloon and three stents and was performed at the Tuscan capital's Careggi Hospital, ANSA said.
The World's Oldest Surgery Patient patient was a former urologist who practiced medicine until he was 80. |
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