The president, 79, progressed well after surgery, is stable and talks and eats normally. The information comes from the medical team, who spoke to the press at the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in São Paulo.
The surgery lasted around two hours, and the president arrived at the hospital lucid and oriented. According to doctors, it was a common complication after falls like the one suffered by the president in October.
Lula should be discharged at the beginning of next week, according to doctors’ predictions. The hematoma formed outside the brain — he felt unwell, nauseated and felt flu-like.
Doctors Marcos Stavale, Ana Helena Germoglio, Roberto Kalil, Rogério Tuma and Mauro Suzuki spoke to the press. Doctor Rogério Tuma ruled out the possibility of new complications like this.
“He will stay in the ICU for another 48 hours for observation. As I said, he is fine, eating, conscious, normal. It’s more of a precaution,” said Kalil.
Marcos Stavale said that the president will be hospitalized and will then continue his life normally. “It’s not like he’s going to be doing CT scans every week,” added Kalil.
The PT member had an intracranial hemorrhage and underwent a craniotomy this morning to drain the hematoma. The hemorrhage is related to the fall suffered by Lula on October 19, when he hit his head in the bathroom of the Palácio da Alvorada, the official residence of the Presidency.
This Monday (09), Lula complained of headaches and drowsiness in conversations with ministers, according to one of them. One of the president’s interlocutors said that the PT member was already showing discomfort during the afternoon.
Lula left Palácio do Planalto at 6pm before the end of a day, and went to the Hospital Sírio-Libanês unit in Brasília.
The original intention was for him to undergo tests only this Tuesday morning (10). After being consulted, President Roberto Kalil Filho’s doctor decided to anticipate them. After the result, the president was transferred on a FAB (Brazilian Air Force) plane to .
to RedeTV! in early November. According to him, the fall he suffered resulted in a “very strong blow” to the head and which he thought “had cracked his brain”.
“I fell from where I should never have fallen. See, I arrived at 4:30 pm on Saturday, at home, coming from São Paulo and I sat down to cut my nail, I cut my nail, I filed my nail, sitting on a stool that I always sat on And behind the bench I was sitting on there is the mirror, the drawers where they store things and a large whirlpool, 1.5 meters high. I was sitting”, he described.
“When I went to put the case away, instead of moving with the bench, I just moved with my body. The concrete fact is the following: there was no more space and then my butt didn’t levitate. So I fell and hit my head. It was a very strong blow, a lot of blood came out, I thought I had split the brain, cracked the hoof.”
Lula then reported that he was taken directly to the Brasília unit of the Sírio Libanês hospital. And then he reported that he had the perception that it was something “much more serious”
“I thought it was something much more serious. The crash messed with my brain, I’m having an MRI every three days. Now I’m going to do one last one, not one last one, do one on Sunday to see if I’m 100% cured”, said the president.
The recurrence of the intracranial bleeding suffered by the president may increase the chances of sequelae and require a longer period of absence.
It is not yet known what type of hematoma was diagnosed in Lula, but, due to the characteristics and type of intervention carried out, doctors consulted by the Sheet believe to be the subdural, the most common in the elderly.
Neurosurgeon Luiz Severo explains that factors such as age, use of anticoagulants and repeated trauma increase the risk of bleeding recurrence, which becomes more worrying.
“An unoperated bleed can evolve over time and collect in the brain space that elderly people have. Elderly people have a larger space in the brain, due to cerebral atrophy, a natural condition.”
For him, this emergency surgery has several important considerations regarding his recovery and prognosis. “Being the president of the country, all of this starts to be worrying.”
According to the doctor, recurrence of intracranial bleeding followed by surgery may increase the chances of sequelae, but this may vary depending on the severity of the hemorrhage and how quickly the treatment was carried out.
In these situations, the hematoma can compress important areas of the brain, such as speech, motor skills and emotions.
