On the fifth day of his hospitalization, Pope Francis still presents this Tuesday, February 18, a “tComplex clinical spike “, According to a new Vatican medical bulletin. Aged 88, he has been treated since Friday at the Gemelli hospital in Rome.
« Laboratory examinations, pulmonary x-ray and clinical condition of the Holy Father continue to present a complex table “Detailed the Vatican. “” Polymicrobial infection, which has declared itself on a background of bronchitasis and asthmatic bronchitis, and which required the use of antibiotic therapy based on cortisone, makes therapeutic management more complex. »
A “bilateral pneumonia”
François, to whom we withdrew part of a lung when he was young, made this afternoon “ A chest control scanner prescribed by the Vatican health team and the medical team of the AGOSTINO Gemelli University Polyclinic Foundation ». This radiography has shown “ the appearance of bilateral pneumonia which required a new drug therapy ».
Nevertheless, Pope Francis is ” in a good mood ».
This morning, the pope ” received the Eucharist “And, during the day, he alternated” rest with prayer and reading texts ». « He thanks for the proximity he feels at the moment and asks, with a grateful heart, that we continue to pray for him Added the Vatican.
François’ health appears on Tuesday on the front page of all the major Italian newspapers. “The hospitalization of Pope Francis continues”title for example he Corriere della will be which returns in particular on the very busy agenda of the pope last week.
This is his fourth hospitalization since 2021. After initially released his agenda until Wednesday, the Vatican announced the cancellation of his on Saturday jubilee audience, adding that the Pope would not preside the mass on Sunday.
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