Pope Francis Vatican said Tuesday that bilateral pneumonia was developed, after which the 88 -year -old Pope showed more complications in new tests.
Francis' respiratory infection also includes asthma bronchitis, which requires the use of Cortison antibiotic treatment, Vatican said. “Laboratory tests, chest X -rays, and Holi Father's medical condition offer a complex image,” said Vatican.
Vatican spokesman Matteo Broni said in late refreshing, yet the Pope is in good IR emotion and is grateful for his recovery.
The Vatican on Tuesday canceled the Popal audience and assigned others to cover Pope Francis.
Although other Vatican operations move as usual, the cancellations have made a misconduct over the future events of the Vatican's largest holy year, but the Catholicism once celebrated a quarter of the quarter once aimed at The pilgrims have to encourage them to participate in special Jubilee activities in Rome. . They are expected to attract 30 million people to Rome, the holy year of 2025 is full of special Popal audience and public, some of which are now put in question of Francis' illness.
Francis was admitted to the Gameli Hospital in Rome on Friday after a week of bronchitis. On Monday, the medical staff decided that it was suffering from a polymicrobial respiratory tract infection, which means the virus, bacteria and possibly other organisms were colonized by its respiratory tract.
The Vatican has not indicated how long he can stay in the hospital, just saying that the treatment of such a “complex clinical image”, for which his drug behavior already give Changes are needed, it will require a “appropriate” stay.
“The Pope is at risk of pneumonia due to this polymcrobic bronchitis,” said Dr. Carmelo Disro, an infectious disease and geographical disease expert in Rome. “We will see the effect of this new therapy in four to five days.”
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Deer, who is not involved in the care of Francis, noted that in view of the seriousness of their infection, the fever was not necessarily a positive thing.
“A high fever is a symptom of a pathogenic immune response,” he said. Let's say, “There is a low fever and a serious bronchial infection … a sign of a decrease in immune response and it causes us a little more trouble. It may have been better if it had a fever.
Vatican spokesman Matu Burney said Francis once again had a peaceful night, ate breakfast and read newspapers on Tuesday morning. Later, more detailed medical updates were expected.
On Monday, Francis resumed doing some work and made a daily call to a parish in Gaza City to meet the Catholic community there. Identifying that Vatican's second business is moving on Tuesday, Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Petro Pirulin, Burkina Faso and another top Vatican cardinal, Cardinal Michael Keseni continued his delicate tour, Who is ready to leave for a five -day visit on Wednesday. To Lebanon
But the other business had to be canceled. Weekly will not be ordinary audiences on Wednesday, and it is unclear whether Francis will lose his blessings on Sunday afternoon for the second consecutive week.
It was dedicated to the Decles of the Holy Year, the ministry that is an essential step for men who are preparing to become priests. Francis was an irrelevant audience on Saturday and had to order the Decons during a Mass on Sunday. The Vatican announced on Tuesday that his audience had been canceled and that Jubilee organizing the Archbishop will celebrate Mass in place of the Pope. This is the same arrangement that the Vatican announced last week when artists in the city had to settled for a cardinal presidency of Scraped Popal and their special Mass.
The next Jubilee events in the calendar that will usually include the Pope are dedicated to volunteers on the weekend of March 8-9.
Francis removed some of the lungs after a pulmonary infection as a young man and is at risk of combating bronchitis in the winter. He has in the past acknowledged that he is a non -compliant patient, and even his nearest Vatican assistants have said that he removed herself even after the diagnosis of bronchitis.
He refused to leave his busy schedule and ignored medical suggestions to stay indoors in Rome's pepper winter, and insisted on February 9 to sit through the outer Jubilee Mass for the armed forces, although it breathed There was difficulty in taking.
This year, the entry to a Francis hospital has removed him from being admitted to a hospital for pneumonia for more than 2023.
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