According to the medical report, the former president is performing motor and respiratory physiotherapy; Follows in the ICU and without forecast of high
The former president (PL) shared on the afternoon of this 3rd (15.abr.2025) a new video walking through the corridors of the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). This time, the former chief executive managed to get around without the walker’s support, only leaning on the former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro.
According to the Medical Bulletin of this Thursday (15.br.2025), Bolsonaro performs motor and respiratory physiotherapy to assist in the recovery of surgery to treat partial obstruction of the intestine, performed on Sunday (13.abr). This is a (PDF – 81 kb).
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Despite improving, Bolsonaro remains hospitalized in the ICU and with no forecast of discharge. The medical team also recommended the restriction of family visits.
He underwent surgery to clear the gut and reconstruct the abdominal wall. The procedure lasted about 12 hours. It is the 7th surgery of the former president in the digestive tract since the stabbed suffered in 2018.
Bolsonaro Health
Bolsonaro landed in Rio Grande do Norte on the night of Thursday (10.abr) for the inauguration of Route 22 on Friday (11.abr), the party project to expand the scope of opposition guidelines focused on the Northeast.
In the commitments were the passage through the cities of Acari, Oiticica and Pau dos Ferros. However, he began to feel severe abdominal pain still in Tangará and the agenda was suspended.
The entourage then accelerated towards the Santa Cruz, 64 km from Bom Jesus, where the former president.
From there, he was transferred from helicopter to the capital. He landed at Walfredo Gurgel Hospital and went on ambulance to Rio Grande Hospital, where he entered around 11:15 am.
Already on Saturday (12.abr), given the need for a more specialized evaluation, the medical team and the family. Bolsonaro was transferred from Christmas to DF Star Hospital, a reference in surgical treatments and where he has performed other procedures before. The decision to remove was made after the exams indicated that he suffered from an intestinal obstruction, a recurring problem from the.
In a video published on Saturday (12.abr), Bolsonaro had already talked about the possibility of performing surgery.
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On Sunday (13.abr), the former president called. The operation, which had a forecast of ,. The procedure included intestinal clearance and reconstruction of the abdominal wall, weakened by previous surgeries.
After surgery, Bolsonaro was sent to the ICU, where he remains under observation, with a condition considered stable by the medical team. Still on Sunday (13.abr), on his Instagram profile, former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro said the surgery was “A success”.
Still on Sunday night (13.abr), Michelle went to social networks to thank the work of the medical team. “My eternal gratitude to this extraordinary medical team that, with precision, competence and humanity, led our captain’s 12 hours of surgery“.
Understand the surgery
This was the one that Jair Bolsonaro undergoes complications arising from the stab she took in 2018.
According to Bernardo Martins, gastroenterologist at the Santa Lúcia Norte Hospital of Brasilia, obstruction is a change in the normal flow of the intestinal tract that can occur at any height of the proximal intestine to the large intestine. Patients with this condition may experience severe abdominal pain and have nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension.
Martins stated that the purpose of the surgery that Bolsonaro goes through is enter the abdominal cavity and explore everything that is inappropriate. “Sometimes it is not clear what will be found in the patient’s abdomen. The procedure tries to resolve the abdominal anomalies that will be found“, These.
The expert states that the former president’s staff was delicate for the number of medical interventions he went through. Repeated paintings generate more acute inflammatory responses. Irritation favors the emergence of new obstructions.
There are several causes for intestinal obstruction. Interruptions may be mechanical, caused by hernias, tumors, adhesions, or non -mechanical obstructions, caused by changes in electrolytes such as sodium, potassium, calcium or dehydration.
João Paulo Carvalho, surgeon of the digestive tract of the German Hospital Oswaldo Cruz, evaluates Bolsonaro’s staff as dangerous.
“It can generate various complications in the patient’s body, such as dehydration and hydroelectrolytic disorders. In addition, when untreated, it can lead to obstructed intestinal follow -up necrosis, causing intestinal drilling and intraabdominal infection”He said.
According to the doctor, because of the high number of surgeries in the region, “The abdominal wall has become weakened, increasing the chances of developing an incisional hernia”.
