Lula undergoes new surgery: “It was a success,” says the doctor
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is recovering well after the intracranial procedure he underwent on Thursday morning (12) at São Paulo's Sírio Libanês Hospital.
According to Roberto Kalil Filho, Lula's doctor, the embolization of the middle meningeal artery “was successful.”
“It began at 7:10 a.m. and has just been completed successfully. The medical team effectively embolized the artery [...] and the president is awake and speaking,” Dr. Kalil said in a statement to the press after the procedure. Later this morning, the medical team will hold a press conference to provide more details about the surgery.
Yesterday (11), the team explained that the intervention was performed to reduce the risk of future bleeding from small arteries in the president's meninges.
The surgery was prompted by a domestic accident on October 19, when the president fell in the bathroom of his official residence and injured his head. Since then, Lula underwent several imaging tests and was closely monitored, but no intervention had been required until now.
On Monday night (9), Lula experienced headaches, and after undergoing tests at the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in Brasília, he was transferred to the São Paulo unit. In the early hours of Tuesday (10), he underwent trepanation to drain an intracranial hemorrhage. Today (12), he underwent embolization, a complementary procedure.
