Doelf Bachmann, at the age of 38 became the first angioplasty patient in the world to undergo balloon angioplasty on September 16, 1977. He enjoys being the posterboy of angioplasty. He has visited the world as a living advertisement of the angioplasty. Now Bachmann visits Mumbai at the behest of the organizing committee of the International Conference of Coronary Artery Disease, which is also observing 20 years of angioplasty in India. Dr.