In 2017, the musician was hospitalized for more than a year and lived with death sequences
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Sambista Arrindo Cruz, removed from the stadium since he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke in 2017, lived with sequence until his death at the age of 66 on Friday, 8 years old, highlighting the seriousness of this disease which is one of the main causes of death in Brazil.
Always present on the samba wheels through his songs, Arrindo Cruz had been far from the stage for eight years. The artist, who died on Friday, 8 years old, at the age of 66, had a hemorrhagic blow in the bathroom that left him with sequences and complications. The disease that “withdrawn” the singer first of the expected killed a Brazilian every 7 minutes in 2025.
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It all happened in 2017. “He was performing the greatest function that brought him to this land, this life, this existence: composing, singing in the shower. When suddenly, I felt a deafening silence, and then it was like in the blink of an eye. I beat the eyelids, when I opened the eye, my world collapsed”, recalled his wife, Babi Cruz, on Social Netkks. The report was given on April 17, the eight years of the accident.
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Enthusiastic, he added: “I had no idea that from that moment my life followed another course, that his life was on a thread. Today they have passed for eight years, eight years have passed. Here, only in a film, I can say details of terror, pain, despair that since that moment, this day … I never heard his voice.”
The hemorrhagic stroke that Vittimized Arrindo Cruz left him hospitalized for a year and three months. When it was discharged, the singer faced sequences and complications for health. According to the family, he began to feed gastrostomy (a stomach probe) and breathed with the help of a tracheostomy (surgical opening in the trachea).
What is the stroke suffered by Arrindo Cruz?
Known as “stroke”, stroke occurs when the vessels that transport blood to the brain obstruct or break, generating a brain paralysis that has been without blood circulation. The disease is still divided into two types: ischemic and hemorrhagic, which was the case of the singer Arrindo Cruz.

The ischemic stroke occurs when there is obstruction of an artery that prevents the passage of oxygen to the brain cells. The cause can be due to a thrombus (thrombosis) or a plunger (embolism). According to the Ministry of Health, the type represents the vast majority with up to 85% of cases.

Already the hemorrhagic stroke, considered by the Sambista, is even more dangerous. In this case, a cerebral vase breaks, causing bleeding. This blood loss can take place inside the brain tissue or on the surface between the brain and the menin. According to the folder, this type tends to cause the death more often than ischemic stroke.
Furthermore, according to the Ministry of Health, the patients most affected by this problem are men. The risks can be even higher in cases of Overweight, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, physical inactivity, excessive use of alcohol and drugs, as well as smoke and high cholesterol. Family history is also important to map the disease.
This year, the high number of cases welcomed a warning for the Brazilians. This is because “the stroke” has shown that it is one of the main causes of death in the country.

Only this year, between January and April, the disease died of 18,724 people, according to the data of the transparency portal of the civil register offices. The number is equivalent to a death every seven minutes throughout the year. 84,878 deaths were already recorded last year.
What are the symptoms of a possible stroke?
With the race of everyday life, it is sometimes difficult to give the correct importance to the signs that the body may not work well. In the case of stroke, the main warning symptoms are:
- Mental confusion;
- Change of word or understanding;
- Change of viewing
- Change of vision (in one or both eyes);
- Sudden, intense headache
- Sudden headache, intense, without apparent cause;
- Change of balance, coordination
- Change of balance, coordination, dizziness or floor change;
- Weakness or tingling in the leg
- Weakness or tingling on one side of the body (face, arm or leg)
*With information from the Estadão content

Source: Terra

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