Pope Francis, 88, successful Critical Condition
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Pope Francis' wellness has taken a crook for the worse.
The 88-year-old experienced an "asthma-like respiratory situation of prolonged intensity, which required the medication of high-flow oxygen," and his information "continues to beryllium critical," the Vatican said Feb. 22, much than a week aft the pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church was hospitalized.
"The pope is not retired of danger," their connection added. "Today's humor tests besides revealed thrombocytopenia, associated with anemia, which required the medication of humor transfusions. The Holy Father remains alert and spent the time successful an armchair, though helium is much uncomfortable than yesterday. At the moment, the prognosis remains guarded."
The pope was admitted to Rome's Gemelli infirmary February 14 for a respiratory tract corruption and was aboriginal diagnosed with treble pneumonia.
The pontiff, who has been pope since 2013, is prone to respiratory infections. In 1957, helium developed a terrible corruption successful 1 lung and underwent country to region portion of it.
Prior to his respiratory crisis, the pope's aesculapian squad had said Feb. 21 they believed helium would beryllium hospitalized for "at least" the entirety of adjacent week.
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"He is not retired of danger, truthful similar each fragile patients, it is ever a delicate balance," his wide practitioner Dr. Luigi Carbone said astatine a property league Feb. 21. "It would instrumentality precise small for his information to go unstable."
Meanwhile, the Vatican has canceled each of the pope's nationalist engagements done Feb. 23 and nary caller ones person been scheduled.
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His wellness situation has raised nationalist speculation of him resigning arsenic person of the Catholic Church. Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin has said this is unfounded.
"Right now, our absorption is connected the Holy Father’s health, his recovery, and his instrumentality to the Vatican," helium told Italian paper Corriere della Sera successful an interrogation published Feb. 22. "These are the lone things that matter."
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