During Wednesday afternoon there was great concern about the health of Jorge Lanatawho suffered a intestinal ischemia and it was emergency surgery at the Italian Hospital, where he is admitted.
The operation It lasted just over two hours.. The doctors, shortly after 4 p.m., explained the situation to the daughters and his wife. Different sources consulted by Clarion They assure that the operation went well.
Emergency intervention was decided at noon, after doctors found an intestinal obstruction, which was later confirmed as lack of irrigation and apparent beginning of necrosis.
The operation was done laparoscopically with the aim of unblock the passage of blood to the digestive system. The procedure was delicate due to the journalist’s general health condition.
According to reports, they removed part of his intestine and a new operation is scheduledalthough lower, for the next 48 hours.
As a court ruling requires Lanata’s eldest daughter to participate with her wife in decisions about her father’s health, Bárbara was able to be present at all times and greet the journalist before the intervention.
At four in the afternoon, while outside the Italiano there was a veritable battalion of journalists standing guard waiting for the news, inside the doctors explained to Lola, the other daughter, and Bárbara, the details of the procedure.
Elba Marcovecchio was also present.
Contact with the press
At noon, Marcovecchio went out to the Italiano sidewalk and a television reporter asked him how Lanata was doing. she said “Jorge is better”. He immediately dedicated a few seconds to the legal dispute he has with the driver’s daughters.
Not a word about the operation. There was speculation that Lanata’s wife, at that time, was not aware of what was happening.
The journalistic guard at the door of the sanatorium did not alter the afternoon routine. It was possible, despite the presence of cameras and microphones, to circulate normally, although inside the surveillance was strict.
“I have my father hospitalized on the same floor where Lanata has been. The other time it was full of guards, everything was under surveillance, it was difficult for me to get in…”commented to Clarion Gustavo, relative of a 93-year-old man who is in a common room.
Lanata carries 117 days hospitalized. Elba herself slipped it before responding that the judicial fight with the daughters was “feroz”.
At the entrance people asked knowing everything: “How is Fatty?”. Or, “Have you finished operating on him? I heard,” said a woman, “that the operation was going to last four hours.”
Like it or not, irritate or not, Lanata is there, very present in the everyday rumor. At least that’s the feeling at the door of the sanatorium.
“Hateful,” “charming,” “unflappable poise.” Opinions that were appearing along with the curiosity of people who were passing by about their state of health.
Later, Marcovecchio spoke to the press again. “Jorge came out of the operation and is strong, he is a gladiator,” said the lawyer about her 64-year-old husband.
And she confirmed that the journalist’s daughters, Lola and Bárbara Lanata, were with her in the hospital.
“Now we have to wait… I got a little lost because I was there very early in the morning, I don’t know how long (the operation) lasted…” Elba said, adding that the doctors gave him peace of mind.
When asked if Lanata should undergo surgery again tomorrow, he replied: “That maybe, it’s an alternative. Let’s leave that to the doctors. “He is in the best hospital in the country, he is in the best hands, with the best doctors in the country.”
The previous medical report
On Monday afternoon, his wife Elba Marcovecchio had shared the first medical report issued by the Italian Hospital since the journalist was admitted there again on Saturday due to fever and urinary retention.
Signed by doctors Susana Bauque and Sergio Glannasi, the official statement indicated that he was “admitted to the Intensive Care Unit” due to an infectious condition. On Monday, the journalist had a stable hemodynamic condition, with a low requirement for vasopressor medication.
In the medical report they pointed out an “evolution with a slight deterioration in kidney function.” However, he remained in the intensive care room. The driver was hospitalized on the 4th floor when he suffered decompensation. And, as confirmed, the entire floor was closed.
In recent weeks, the driver of PPT He had several back-and-forths between the Italian Hospital and the Santa Catalina Clinic, where he had begun neurological rehabilitation treatment. A treatment that was suspended again on Saturday due to complications in his health: he raised a fever in the last hours of Friday and a urinary complication occurred.
Thus, this Saturday and for the third time, Lanata had to be admitted to that Buenos Aires medical center since June 14, when he suffered a decompensation at the time when he was about to undergo a medical check-up.