Dilip Kumar from Jharkhand underwent a surgery to be implanted with a bio-absorbable stent at the Medanta Medicity Hospital in Gurgaon.
The new stent, which completely dissolves in a maximum of 18 months leading to normal functioning of blood vessels, is far different from the commonly-used traditional metallic stents that stay permanently in blood vessels.
Bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS), as the stent is called, is lauded by medical fraternity across the globe as a "path-breaking" and "most important innovation" for patients with clogged arteries.
Another advantage with this stent, doctors say, is that since its dissolves on it own and thereby does away with the need of taking regular blood-thinning medicines to avoid further clogging around the stent.
"With bio-dissolvable stent there are no chances of stent thrombosis (clotting) in the patients as the scaffolding disappears completely," Dr Praveen Chandra, Chairman of Interventional Cardiology at the hospital, said.
Medanta's Chairman Dr Naresh Trehan said the number of cardiac patients is increasing at an alarming rate in India.
"The introduction of dissolvable stent will be very beneficial for young patients and also the ones who have multiple blockages," he said.