The latest medical report on the health of Pope Francis 88, he pointed out that he had a worsening in the state of health. According to the document issued on Saturday (22), he presented a plateletboard, a significant drop in the number of platelets, the cells responsible for blood coagulation.
MARCELO RABAHI Pulmonologist at Albert Einstein Hospital, explains to CNN That this fall in the number of platelets may provide some coagulation disorders, such as intense bleeding. He also says that there are several causes for this health problem.
“Coagulation disorders can be caused by some specific diseases, but in the context of Pope Francis’ disease, it may be related to an infection and this can be a more severe sign of infection and perhaps a warning sign for a septicemia, which would be a widespread infection “, Warns.
The expert completes that this picture may also mean an adverse effect of some medicine that may have been taught to contain some other type of health problem by Pope Francis, which has also been diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia.
“This is sometimes common to happen. Platelet may also be related to the issue of immune system, also falling red cells, white cells and even platelets. Then fall the three main cell types of the blood, and in this sense, there is blood transfusions, ”he details.
Marcelo says it is important to consider that the patient is elderly, is 88 years old, and anemia linked to plateletopenia can make the picture even more severe. He points out that this may represent the consumption or wear of the body itself, a blood loss or even an infection.
“It’s a warning sign that needs to be investigated. In addition to transfusion, replacement, platelets, the concentrate of red blood cells, it is very important to define what the exact cause is so that it can do the specific treatment. Or even investigate whether this is a sign of alerting or complicating any other situation in the body. ”
It compares the platelet with severe dengue cases, when the patient has very low levels of platelets and that there is a great fear that he may have any kind of bleeding in some region of the body.
“To treat, first, you need to understand what caused this plaqueopheny. If it is in a context of worsening, infection and the platelets fall, it is necessary to treat the infection. If it is in a context of falling by the body’s consumption, there is replacement and platelet transfusion. In the context of someone who has been hospitalized for a longer time, it requires great care not only from the correction of the problem, but also the identification of what was the cause for this to happen, ”he concludes.
This content was originally published in Papa Francisco: what is platelet, which affects the health of the pontiff on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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