by our correspondent Filippo Conticello
December 2 – 11.18am – FIRENZE
Not only the smile on the nurses' faces when they woke up, but also a ritual “I'm fine” said to the family who had just arrived here at the Careggi ae Raffaele Palladino hospital: his coach was the first to show up in the ward today too, the day after the great fear. Edoardo Bove, now extubated, is alert and communicates with those around him, starting with his girlfriend Martina, father Giovanni and mother Tanya, the most tried in those long moments at Franchi that seemed to never end. Even before questioning himself about his career and the risks to his sporting fitness, given the stringent Italian laws on the matter, the Viola midfielder must regain his strength and wait for all the values to be definitively stabilised: today the cardiologic tests will continue and it should be widespread a new official bulletin. In the meantime, the medical team of the Florentine institute – an authority in Italy for cardiovascular cases – will continue to question all the questions remaining on the table. What really happened to Edoardo's heart when it stopped for interminable seconds during Fiorentina-Inter? We are trying to understand what caused the cardiac arrest, which was then overcome thanks to the emergency response on the pitch and specialist aid inside the ambulance, which sped away with sirens blaring towards Careggi. Just about ten minutes of slalom in the Florentine traffic on Sunday afternoon. The first diagnosis spoke of arrhythmia due to “torsades de pointes”, a form of ventricular tachycardia that develops in subjects suffering from a particular disorder of the electrical activity of the heart and with a so-called long QT interval (it is so called due to the lengthening of the interval between two waves, Q and T, of the electrocardiogram, i.e. between the moment in which the contraction of the ventricles begins and the moment in which the electrical recharge that occurs after each beat ends).
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Once he arrived at the hospital, the worst had already been definitively averted: Bove had already been “stabilised” before, he had respiratory and vascular autonomy. The first tests had not found any particular thoracic contusions, but a very low potassium value immediately caught the eye, compatible with that type of arrhythmia. Having responded well to the first operation and without damage to the central nervous system and cardiorespiratory system, he remained under pharmacological sedation in the Intensive Care unit where he is still hospitalized. There would seem to be nothing in his history that could lead us to imagine an event of this type, which was in some ways unpredictable: so far all the usual tests in the Roman years and in these Florentine months had not, in fact, highlighted any cardiac anomaly.
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