Pope Francis ‘fragile’ as a pneumonia battle for sepsis threats, doctors say – National

The Vatican continued with its Holy Year celebrations without the Pope on Saturday, while Pope Francis fought against pneumonia and complex respiratory infection that doctors say remains remains contact and will keep him hospitalized at least another week.

Francis slept overnight, said Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni in a short early update on Saturday.

But doctors warned that the main threat that 88-year-old Francis faced Start of the sepsisA serious blood infection that can occur as a complication of pneumonia. From Friday there was no evidence of any sepsis, and Francis responded to the various medicines he takes, the Pope’s medical team said in his first depth update of the Pope’s condition.

“It’s not out of danger,” said his personal doctor, Dr. Luigi Carbone. “Like all fragile patients, I say they are always on the golden ladder: in other words, it takes very little to become unbalanced.”

Francis, who has a chronic lung disease, was admitted to Gemelli Hospital on February 14th after a The week was getting worse with bronchitis.

Doctors first diagnosed Complex infection of the respiratory tract of viral, bacteria and fungi and then the beginning of pneumonia in both lungs. They prescribed a “absolute rest” and a combination of cortisone and antibiotics, along with additional oxygen when he needed.

Carbone, who is together with Francis’s personal nurse Massimiliano Strappetti Organized concern for him in the Vatican, she admitted that he insisted on staying in the Vatican to work, even after being ill, “because of the institutional and private obligations.” A cardiologist and an infectious specialist took care of him, except for his personal medical team before he was hospitalized.

Dr. Sergio Alfieri, head of medicine and surgery at the Gemelli hospital, said that the biggest threat that Francis faces is that some germs currently in his respiratory system are transitioning into the bloodstream, causing sepsis. Sepsa can lead to the failure of the organs and death.

“Sepsa, with respiratory problems and his years, would be really hard to get out,” Alfieri said at a press conference on Friday in Gemelli. “The English say” wood knocking, “we say” touches iron. “Everyone touches what they want,” he said as he touched the microphone. “But this is a real risk in these cases: that these germs go into the bloodstream.”

“He knows it’s in danger,” Alfieri added. “And he told us to transfer that.”

Meanwhile, deacons gathered in the Vatican for their special jubilee weekend. Francis got sick at the beginning Vatican Holy YearCatholicism celebrations in the whole quarter. This weekend Francis was supposed to celebrate deacons, a service in a church that preceded the population of the priesthood.

In his place, the organizer of the Holy Year will celebrate Sunday Mass, Vatican said. And the second weekend in a row, Francis was expected to skip his traditional blessing on Sunday noon, which could have delivered from Gemelli if he was on it.

“Look, even though he’s not (physically) here, we know he’s here,” said Luis Arnaldo Lopez Quirindongo, a deacon from Ponce, a Puerto Rico who was in the Vatican on Saturday to celebrate the anniversary. “Recover, but he is in our hearts and follows us because our prayers and his together.”

In addition, doctors said that Francis’s recovery would take time and that, no matter what, they would have to live with his chronic respiratory problems in the Vatican.

“He has to overcome this infection and we all hope to get over it,” Alfieri said. “But the fact is that all doors are open.”

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