Pope Francis to stay in the hospital to treat the respiratory tract infection – nationally

Pope Francis’ respiratory tract infection is a “complex clinical picture” that will require further hospitalization, Vatican He said on Monday that the concern grew because of all the fragile health of the 88-year-old Pontiff.

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said that the results of the tests carried out in recent days and on Monday show that the Pope suffers from a “polymycrobial infection of the respiratory tract”, which required further change of his drug therapy. Scientists say polyMicrobial diseases are caused by a mixture of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites.

There was no time frame for his hospitalization, which had already drunk it longer than hospitalization 2023 for pneumonia. Bruni said that the complexity of his symptoms “would demand an appropriate stay in the hospital.”

Francis, who was removed part of a lung after a pulmonary infection as a young man, was admitted to the Gemelli Roman hospital at the “Fair” on Friday after a one -day bronchitis has worsened. Doctors have confirmed the respiratory tract infection and prescribed a “absolute holiday” together with vague drug therapies. Subsequent updates said that his slight fever disappeared and was in stable condition.

Bruni said Francis had eaten breakfast and read the newspaper on Monday morning after the third quiet night.

As people become older, their immune system also does not function, making doctors especially concerned when older patients develop more problems. A decrease in the function of the lungs and power of the muscle can monitor the age and impair the ability to effectively clean the respiratory secretion. This can increase sensitivity to infections such as pneumonia.

The Argentine Pope is a well -known work that holds a hard pace despite his insecure health. In addition to its frequent respiratory infections in winter, it uses a wheelchair, a walker or a reed because of its bad knees and suffers from the pain in the sciatica nerves. In 2021, 33 centimeters (13 inches) of the colon was removed for narrowing, and then in 2023 he had further surgery to remove the intestinal scar and repair the abdominal hernia.

When he had a bad case of pneumonia in 2023, after three days he left the hospital and admitted only after the fact that he was urgently received after feeling an unconscious and sharp chest pain. This time, Francis insisted that he finish his morning audience on Friday before leaving the Vatican, even though he had problems with his long to speak because he lacked breath.

Francis’ continuous hospitalization has already forced the cancellation of some events related to the Vatican Saint Year and has called on others. The official Vatican calendar online has no more papal meetings or activities for February, and only takes on March 5 on Wednesday. This week’s week’s general audience was canceled.

Francis was supposed to go to Rome on Monday to meet Cinecitt to meet with the artists as part of the Holy Year Celebration of the Catholic Church, but the Vatican canceled the event. On top of that, he was supposed to chair on Sunday in the Central Deacon as part of the Holy Last Year of the Deacon of Deacons. Although still listed on the jubilee calendar as the main celebrant, his participation is not stated in the Vatican calendar.

When he missed the jubilee Mass dedicated to artists last Sunday, the Cardinal followed him.

-Medical writer Maria Cheng contributed to London.

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