Postoperative will be long and there is no forecast of discharge, doctors say about Bolsonaro surgery

The former president’s recovery After surgery in the gut will be long, and there is no forecast of discharge. The information was given by the medical team of DF Star Hospital in Brasilia on the morning of Monday (14), during a press conference. “It will be a very prolonged postoperative period. There is no forecast of discharge this week,” said cardiologist Leandro Echenique. Next, general surgery specialist Claudio Birolini reinforced the sensitivity of the coming days: “We have no expectations of a rapid evolution.”

Bolsonaro underwent gut surgery on Sunday (13), the seventh he was submitted after he was a stabbed in the 2018 election campaign. He left the DF Star Hospital surgical center around 9:20 pm. The former president underwent surgery of “extended lise of adhesions and reconstruction of the abdominal wall”. The medical report, released at 9:42 pm, says that “the large procedure lasted 12 hours, occurred without complications and without blood transfusion.”

Bolsonaro entered the operating room around 9 am on Sunday morning for preoperative procedures, and exploitative laparotomy surgery began at 10am, with the aim of releasing intestinal adhesions and reconstructing its abdominal wall as a result of complications of stab wound in 2018, in an attack during the presidential campaign.

The former president had had severe pain in the abdomen region since last Friday (11), when he interrupted a liberal party event in Rio Grande do Norte and had to be taken from helicopter to Christmas. On Saturday night, 12, was transferred to Brasilia on an aircraft with air ICU.

The obstruction that made Bolsonaro ill in Rio Grande do Norte was a “fold of the small intestine that hindered intestinal transit and was undone during the adhesion release procedure.” After surgery, Bolsonaro was referred to the ICU, where he was out of pain, receiving clinical, nutritional and infection prevention support, according to doctors.