Former Ladyman Michelle Bolsonaro used her social networks on Sunday afternoon, 13, to warn that her husband’s surgery, former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), may take longer than expected. “The medical team informed us that it will be long surgery, because it has many adhesions,” he said, in posting on his Instagram Stories.
Intestinal adhesions are fibrous tissue bands that can accumulate between intestine handles, or even between the organ and other abdomen structures, and act almost like a glue, improperly linking the organs or tissues. This problem usually arises during the healing of surgery, or after infections or other injuries or trauma.
Bolsonaro is being subjected to a surgical procedure called exploiting laparotomy, which began around 10am, after the preoperative preparation period held between 9am and 10am. Surgery aims to release adhesions and rebuild the patient’s abdominal wall.
The former president was admitted on Friday, 11, after experiencing severe intestinal pain while serving agendas in the Northeast. On Saturday night, 12, he was transferred from Rio Grande Hospital in Natal to the DF Star Hospital in the Federal District, where the persistence of the intestinal sub-orstration board was found. Intestinal obstruction prevents or significantly reduces the passage of food, liquids, digestive secretions and guts through the gut.
Claudio Birolini, a general surgeon who accompanies Bolsonaro, explained yesterday that the intestinal subocclusion is common in patients undergoing various surgeries, such as the former president. According to him, in most cases, the condition is reversed with clinical measures such as fasting, gastric decompression with probe and parenteral hydration. In previous episodes, the recovery was quick. This time, however, surgical intervention was necessary.
As an Estadão report explains, the surgery to which the former president is being submitted is done with general anesthesia “to explore and investigate everything that is happening within the abdominal cavity and do the necessary repairs to the findings found”, details Henrique DG Joaquim, gastroenterologist and surgeon of the Albert Einstein Hospital. The duration of surgery is unpredictable, but it is a procedure that requires caution to avoid any type of intestinal wall injury, doctors say.
