The President will undergo a new procedure at 7am this Thursday (Dec 12), at Hospital Sírio-Libanês, in São Paulo
The president (PT) to a new procedure at 7am this Thursday (Dec 12, 2024). The technique uses an artery in the area of the clot and reduces the possibility of new bleeding at the site, such as what happened on Monday (Dec 9) and if operated on in the early hours of Tuesday.
In this procedure, a catheter will be inserted to obstruct the artery that supplies the membrane that covers the brain. It is an operation for older people with this type of problem (bleeding in the skull region). Lula is 79 years old. The operation should take approximately one hour.
The vascular radiologist will lead the process of introducing the catheter to obstruct the artery that irrigates the membrane that covers the brain, at Hospital Sírio-Libanês, in São Paulo. He was born in Angola (Africa), but has Portuguese nationality, as, at the time, the country was still a colony of Portugal. According to his Lattes CV, he moved to Brazil at a young age, where he studied Medicine.
The chance of success is high, as it is something that has been practiced for some time. Furthermore, Caldas is a renowned specialist and Sírio-Libanês is a well-equipped hospital. After this type of procedure, only 5% of patients experience bleeding again, according to medical literature. If everything goes well, Lula should stay in the hospital for a few more days and return to Brasília next week, but there is still no set date for that.
If the president starts to bleed again in the region, after this operation, it will be necessary to carry out a craniotomia. This procedure consists of cutting a piece of the skullcap and removing the meninges. It is a much more complex and higher risk operation. The report indicated that Lula had been subjected to this procedure, but the information was wrong. What has been done is a trepanationmaking small holes to drain the blood.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE LULA OPERATION
Below, 79-year-old Lula’s trip to São Paulo (approximate times):
- 9.dez.2024 – Lula feels uncomfortable and leaves a meeting on parliamentary amendments with the presidents of the Chamber, (PP-AL), and the Senate, (PSD-MG) held at Palácio do Planalto, in Brasília. The PT member informs his personal doctor, Roberto Kalil Filho, around 15h who has headaches;
- 9.dez.2024 – the president goes to the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in the federal capital and undergoes 2 tests, a CT scan and an MRI. They decide to take the PT member to the São Paulo unit;
- 9.dez.2024 – the presidential plane with Lula on board takes off from Brasília at 23h08;
- 10.dez.2024 – lands in São Paulo at 0h24;
- 10.dez.2024 – Lula is undergoing surgery (understand how it went in the infographic below) which lasted around 3 hours;
- 10.dez.2024 – to the 4hthe president’s health status is announced;
- 10.dez.2024 – the president’s doctor informs that Lula is in the ICU (intensive treatment unit). President in the brain and his neurological functions are preserved;
- 11.dez.2024 – statement released to 12h that the president remains with a drain to prevent further bleeding in the head, but had a good immediate postoperative evolution;
- 11.dez.2024 – after saying that, the medical team informs the 16h30 than Lula on Thursday (Dec 12), at 7am, to stop the flow in an artery that irrigates the membrane that covers the brain, the meninges.
Lula is under the care of the medical team led by Roberto Kalil Filho and Ana Helena Germoglio.
LULA’S HEALTH
Lula will be 81 when he ends his 3rd term as head of the Palácio do Planalto. He is already the oldest president of Brazil and frequently in interviews and public statements indicates that he intends to run in the next presidential election, in 2026.
The Chief Executive has “70 years old, energy of 30 and horny of 20”.
The craniotomy was carried out on Tuesday (Dec 10) after a cerebral hemorrhage was found due to what Lula suffered when he cut his toenail in the bathroom of the Palácio da Alvorada, his official residence in Brasília, in October this year.
Before that, in 2023, the president was hospitalized for the junction of the femur bone with the hip. On that occasion, he took the opportunity to have plastic surgery and removed excess skin around his eyes.
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