ROME - Pope Francis underwent a three-hour operation in a Rome hospital on Wednesday (June 7) to repair a hernia, which doctors said was successful enough that he should have no limitations on his travels and other activities after he recovers. 'He even joked with me about when we would do the third operation,' said chief surgeon Doctor Sergio Alfieri,...
ROME - Pope Francis underwent a three-hour operation in a Rome hospital on Wednesday to repair a hernia, which doctors said was successful enough that he should have no limitations on his travels and other activities after he recovers.
The surgeon said the 86-year-old Francis had reacted well to general anaesthesia and that he expected the pope to be in hospital for about five to seven days. Francis was taken to hospital after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, where he gave no sign that he was about to enter hospital for planned surgery.
A statement issued on Wednesday morning said the operation was necessary to repair a laparocele, a hernia that sometimes forms over a scar usually resulting from previous surgery. It is more common in older people and it can also be caused by obesity or weakness of the abdominal wall muscles. Francis underwent a laparotomy, or open abdominal surgery, and a prosthesis was used to reconstruct the abdominal wall.
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