“The operation took place as planned. There was no complication, it has removed the diseased valve. The rest of the heart was in great shape. ” Are the words of Alberto Zangrillo, director of anesthesia and intensive care at the San Raffaele. The medical officer of former Prime Minister commented on the first day after the open heart operation of the leader of Forza Italy. He recounts the awakening of the former premier, alert, calm and immediately ready to joke: “This morning I Berlusconi freed from the constraint of respiratory assistance. It has come to immediately express Silvio Berlusconi ever that after 30 seconds was ready to make me a joke: a compliment to the assistance received during the night from one of my nurses of ICU, Cristina, to which he gave an alternative I work to Telecinco ‘. In press conference, Zangrillo retraces the moments of the operation, when the heart of the former premier was stopped: “Cardiac arrest lasted less than an hour – says Zangrillo press conference – the same for extracorporeal circulation. It used a bio-implants in bovine pericardium. The heart is broken without any problems. ” Then the former prime minister was transferred to intensive care: “It is in excellent condition, shiny ‘. The doctor says, “very quiet” but “the level of attention should not decrease, because the complications are always possible.”
Tomorrow will resume walking
Already tomorrow, Thursday, June 16, the former premier will leave the ICU. “Then it will start the motor and respiratory rehabilitation – says doctor – gradually regain all its freedom” and will resume, then, to walk. The hospital stay will last 5:00 to 6:00 days, then there will be the rehabilitation hospital, for another 10-15 days. By early July, the path will therefore be concluded. Ottavio Alfieri, the heart surgeon who operated on the prime minister, said that “there is no possibility rejection day”: the prosthetic aortic valve will not give “no problem for at least 15-20 years, so it is a permanent solution, since the ‘ middle age”. You will resume political activity? For doctors’ heart is still good “, then” I would not say it can not do the election campaign. He will decide him. I do not think that will change his life. “
The awakening
Only the children have talked to telephone with Silvio Berlusconi after the operation. The former prime minister has seen his brother. “As for all patients, are expected to be provided for at least 24 hours in intensive care, we call the zero-day – said Zangrillo – in this case there was only one phone call.” And his brother Paolo Berlusconi confirms: “I got to talk to him.” After a short visit, he said: “It is the fighter usually although some pain have it.” There was also a “time of trouble,” but passed: “We had to wait a few hours because the president was awake, he woke up last night, had a difficult time, but this morning was in the best post-operative conditions. I found him lucid, attentive, continued to thank everyone for the affection with which they surrounded, “says his brother. A Zangrillo but fails to score any time of trouble.
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Berlusconi hospitalized, visits
The project
The surgery for aortic valve replacement, as confirmed Professor Ottavio Alfieri yesterday, June 14, leaving the operating room, he succeeded. The longest day of the former prime minister had begun Tuesday at 8:40 am: “I am ready,” said Berlusconi before entering the operating room. The malfunctioning aortic valve had caused severe cardiac decompensation episode ten days ago, that led to hospitalization and the decision to do the surgery. At the end of Berlusconi he was transferred to intensive care, still sedated. The former premier will spend then another week in the hospital, in the suite room on the sixth floor of the Diamante. The guards of the former premier body does not have even given up for a minute, always there at his side, even out of the operating room, where the heartbeat was stopped for an hour, with the FI leader attached to the car heart-lung (ECMO). The operation is finished at 12.30: waiting in the ICU was the girlfriend Francesca Pascale, appeared moved since the morning when he leans to the blue leader of the bedroom window. Tears in his eyes and a handkerchief in his hand.
June 15, 2016 (amendment 15 June 2016 | 18:33)
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