Pope Francis rests for 10 days at a hospital for lung infection that led to an early stage of kidney insufficiency
Pope Francis88, resting on Monday morning, on the tenth day at the Gemelli Roman hospital for a complex lung infection that led to the early stages of the kidney insufficiency, Vatican said.
“The night went well, the pope slept and rests,” the Vatican said in a statement.
It is unclear if he was awake and ate breakfast.
Francis was admitted to the hospital on February 14th after the Bronchitis killer was worse. The doctors first diagnosed the complex infection of the viral, bacterial and fungal respiratory tract and then the occurrence of pneumonia in both lungs.
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Late on Sunday, doctors said blood tests discovered “wound, light kidney insufficiency”, but that she remained under control. Doctors said Francis remained in critical state But he did not experience further respiratory crises from Saturday night.
Francis, which part of a lung was removed when he was younger, was receiving high flows of additional oxygen, and in Sunday he received two blood transfusions to increase hemoglobin levels. Doctors said his forecast was kept.
The Pope was awake and sensitive on Sunday and attended mass.
Francis’s condition is touch and movement, given his age, fragility and already existing lung disease, doctors said. The main threat to Francis, the doctors warned, is sepsis, a serious blood infection that can occur as a complication of pneumonia.
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From Monday morning there were no indications of any beginning of the sepsis.
Monday is Francis’s tenth day at the hospital, appropriate to the longest hospitalization of his papacy. He spent 10 days at the Gemelli 2021 hospital after 13 centimeters of colon was removed.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan said on Sunday in New York yes Catholic faithful They were united “by the bed of a dying father,” the recognition of Francis’s short time remained that church leaders in Rome did not say publicly.
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“How is our holy father Pope Francis in very, very fragile health and probably close to death,” Dolan said in his homily from the pulpit of St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
Dolan later told reporters to hope and prayed that Francis was “refused.”
Associated Press contributed to this report.
