Surgeon Sergio Alfieri, who operated on Pope Francis to repair a hernia, said the 86-year-old pontiff reacted well to general anesthesia
Sergio Alfieri speaks with the media at the Gemelli Hospital where Pope Francis undergoes the abdominal surgery, in Rome, Italy, June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Remo CasilliThe Vatican said all of the pope's private and general audiences had been cancelled until June 18. In his 2021 stay there, however, Francis recited the traditional Sunday prayer from a hospital balcony.
Alfieri said the pope himself had decided on Tuesday to have the operation the next day after having a CAT scan at the same hospital. Francis underwent a laparotomy, or open abdominal surgery, and a prosthesis was used to reconstruct the abdominal wall. Francis was treated for five days at the same hospital at the end of March with a lung infection and last month skipped audiences for a day due to a fever.a wheelchair or a cane to walk because of persistent knee pain. Last year he didn't want to have an operation on his knee because the general anaesthesia for his colon surgery had brought disagreeable side-effects.
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