The Vatican continued with his holy year celebrations without the Pope Saturday, as Pope Francis fought against a complex pneumonia and respiratory infection, which doctors say. Touch & Go And will be hospitalized for at least another week.
Vatican spokesman Matu Brunei said in a brief initial update on Saturday that Francis was sleeping well overnight.
But doctors have warned that 88 -year -old Francis will be the real danger The start of sepsisA serious blood infection that can be as a complication of pneumonia. The Pope's medical team said in his first depth of the Pope's condition that until Friday, no evidence of any sepsis was found, and Francis was responding to the various drugs he was taking.
“He is not out of danger,” said Dr. Lougie Carbon, his personal physician. “So like all the delicate patients, I say that they always live on a golden scale: in other words, it takes little time to become unbalanced.”
Francis, which is a chronic lung disease, was admitted to Gameli Hospital on February 14 Bronchites' week -long competition worsened.
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Doctors first diagnosed this Complex viral, bacterial and fungal respiratory tract infection And then the start of pneumonia in both lungs. He suggested a combination of “absolute rest” and cortison and antibiotics, as well as additional oxygen when needed.
Carbon, who are with Francis's personal nurse Missimiliano Strapti His systematic care in the Vatican admitted that he insisted on staying in the Vatican even after he became ill, “because of the institutional and private promises.” In addition to his personal medical team before he was admitted to the hospital, a cardiovascular and infectious specialist also took care of him.
Dr. Sergio Alfiri, head of Madison and Surgery at Rome's Gameli Hospital, said the biggest threat to Francis was that some germs located in his respiratory system enter the bloodstream, causing sepsis. – Sepsis can lead to organ failure and death.
“With sepsis, breathing problems and his age, it will be really difficult to get out of it,” Alfiri said at a press conference in Jamili on Friday. “Knock on wood,” we say 'Touch Iron.' Everyone touches the custom, “he said while tapping the microphone. “But in these cases this is the real risk: these germs pass through the bloodstream.”
Alfiri added, “He knows he is in danger.” “And he asked us to train him.”
Meanwhile, Dickens were gathering in the Vatican at the weekend of their special Jubilee. Sick at the beginning of Francis The holy year of the VaticanCatholicism is once celebrated once a quarter. This weekend, Francis celebrated a ministry of Dickens at the church that is pre -setting for the priest.
Vatican said that in his place, Holi's administrators will celebrate Sunday mass. And at the end of the second consecutive week, Francis was expected to leave his traditional Sunday afternoon, which he could deliver from Jameli if he had been on it.
“Look, though he is not here (physically), we know he is here,” Louis Arnoldo Lopez Querlando, was in the Vatican in the Vatican on Saturday for Jubilee celebration, Ponce, Puerto Rico Louis Arnaldo Lopez Quardongo said. “He is recovering, but he is in our hearts and is with us because our prayers and walks with it.”
Beyond that, doctors have said that it will take time for Francis to recover and, regardless of that, he still has to stay with the chronic breathing problems in the Vatican.
Alfiri said, “He has to end this infection and we all hope he will be overcome.” “But the fact is, all doors are open.”
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