Brazil president Lula to undergo second operation after emergency brain surgery

 

 

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will undergo another operation to “minimize the risk of future bleeding” his doctors have said, after the emergency operation carried out on Tuesday to contain a brain bleed.

 

Lula, 79, is expected to undergo the “complementary” procedure on Thursday , his medical team said on Wednesday.

 

The minimally invasive procedure is called middle meningeal artery embolization and aims to reduce bleeding and prevent the accumulation of blood between the brain and the skull.

 

“There is a small possibility that in the future, the small arteries of the meninges could still cause minor bleeding,” Lula’s personal doctor, Dr Roberto Kalil Filho told reporters. “So this complementary procedure to the surgical procedure is to minimise the risk of this happening in the future.”

 

Kalil said that the “relatively simple and low risk”, non-surgery procedure would be carried out on Thursday morning and would take about an hour.

 

Kalil reiterated that the president’s first surgery had been carried out without complications and said that the president’s recovery has been “excellent”.

 

“He is doing well, sitting up, talking and eating,” he said.

 

 

 

Source:  The Gusrdian