Pope Francis underwent abdominal surgery at the Gemelli hospital in Rome. “The holy father is fine, he is awake and alert”, said the surgeon Sergio Alfierihead of the team that intervened to solve a abdominal incisional hernia. “He’s already made the first joke to me,” said the surgeon. “The Pope asked me when we do the third”. It is with this sentence that the pontiff greeted the surgeon who had just woken up after the operation. Alfieri is in fact the surgeon who has already operated on Bergoglio in the past.
“Together with other colleagues we decided to plan the surgery”, said Alfieri. The surgeon recalled the presence of “strong adhesions in the mid-intestine loops that caused the symptoms. These internal scars and the difficulty of transit were freed with plastic surgery and with the aid of a prosthetic mesh. The The Holy Father has reacted well”.
“The operation two years ago was done for a benign pathology, the diverticular stenosis is benign, the pathology for which he was operated on today is benign and will leave no traces. The hospital stay will be between 5 and seven days, he is 86 years old and has already undergone 4 surgeries. Give us a few days,” said the surgeon.
The surgery “was carried out without complications and lasted three hours”, communicated the Vatican press office. The pontiff was then taken back to his apartment on the tenth floor of the polyclinic.
“Pope francesco he is alert and conscious and thanks for the numerous messages of closeness and prayer that immediately reached him”, reports the director of the Vatican press office, Matteo Bruni.
Pope Francis, the arrival at the Gemelli
“The operation, coordinated in recent days by the medical team assisting the Holy Father, became necessary due to a incarcerated incisional hernia which is causing recurrent, painful and worsening sub-occlusive syndromes. The stay at the health facility will last several days to allow for the normal post-operative course and full functional recovery”, said the director of the Press Office of the Holy SeeMatthew Bruni.
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“Your Holiness, in view of your hospitalization at the Gemelli Polyclinic I would like to send you my best wishes for the positive outcome of the operation you will undergo this afternoon. The whole Italian people are close to you with feelings of affection and solidarity, which I fully accept At this moment, as well as on the prayers of the Catholic faithful, you can count on the sympathetic thoughts of countless people, believers and non-believers. I renew to Your Holiness my most sincere wishes for a peaceful convalescence, and a speedy and complete recovery”. She writes it Sergio Mattarella in a message to the Pope.
Here is the hernia from which Pope Francis suffers
“You have seen the press release, I believe there are no more words to add. We follow it with our affection – so Cardinal Pietro Parolin replied to journalists on the Pope’s state of health -, we follow him with our prayers, hoping that everything will be resolved as soon as possible and that he will return to the exercise of his ministry”. When asked if he was worried, he replied: “I don’t know what to say because I have no elements to say one way or the other. It seemed to me that the press release was trying to say things in a very technical way, which perhaps isn’t even that easy to understand, but to give the elements that allow us to frame the problem”.
The surgeon Alfieri operates on the Pope, it is the second time.
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