Rome, April 8 (IANS) Italy has set a new world record in the field of medical science with an open-heart surgery on a 100-year-old man, a media report said.

 
 Medical experts from Florence city's Careggi Hospital carried out the surgery using the implantation of an artery-widening balloon and three stents or expandable tubes.
 
 The unnamed patient - a former doctor - was saved with a procedure never used before on a person of his age, Xinhua reported citing the country's ANSA news agency.
 
 The patient, an ex-urologist born in February 1911, was said to be "doing well".