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Lula will undergo a new intervention
The Brazilian president will undergo a new procedure on Thursday morning aimed at “reducing the risk” of hemorrhage near the brain, two days after his emergency operation.
This alert on the health of the Brazilian leader, less than two years before the presidential election, has cast doubt on his ability to run for re-election.
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 79, underwent an operation on Tuesday after complaining of severe headaches, caused by a hemorrhage in the skull, linked to a fall in October, which forced him to cancel his trip to Russia for the Brics summit.
This alert on the health of the leader of the largest country in Latin America, less than two years before the next presidential election, has cast doubt on his ability to seek re-election, while no successor stands out to represent the left in the vote.
“As part of the therapeutic program, he will perform an additional operation, with an endovascular intervention (embolization of the middle meningeal artery) tomorrow morning,” indicates the medical bulletin published Wednesday at the end of the day by the Syrian-Lebanese hospital. from São Paulo.
“Already planned”
Lula’s personal doctor, Roberto Kalil, explained during a press briefing at the hospital that this intervention, estimated to last one hour, was “already planned” and that it aimed to “reduce the risk future bleeding. Concretely, it involves introducing a catheter into the femoral artery, a “relatively simple and low-risk” operation.
The head of state remains “in intensive care”, but he “had a good day, did physiotherapy, walked and received visits from members of his family”, detailed the hospital.
His condition “evolved well in the post-operative phase, without complications”, described a first medical bulletin published Wednesday at midday, specifying that he was “lucid” and that he remained “equipped with a drain while waiting for new routine examinations.
The medical team announced shortly after the operation that the patient would have to remain 48 hours under observation in intensive care, and that he should not leave the hospital until next week.
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