The Holy Father is fighting bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized since February 14th
The clinical state of Pope Francis remains stable and without crisis, according to the last bulletin issued by Vatican On the afternoon of Tuesday 4.
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“The clinical condition of the Holy Father remained stable today. He did not present episodes of respiratory failure or bronchospasm. He remained apricine, always attentive, collaborating with therapy and oriented,” said the Vatican.
This morning, the Pope started using high flow oxygen therapy and performed respiratory physiotherapy. Tonight, as expected, non -invasive mechanical ventilation will resume.
Hospitalized since February
Pope Francis is fighting bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized since February 14, at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital in Rome. Initially he had been hospitalized to treat bronchitis that developed for a polymicrobial infection of the airways. According to the Holy See, the treatment was changed after diagnosis.
“Respiratory infections in general are consequences of virus, bacteria or mushroom infection. In the end, the overlap, then begins with a viral framework and is complicated with a bacterial infection or an associated fungal infection “, explains the pneumologist Elie Fisso by high diagnoses to Earth.
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