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Brightstar82
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 Mon Dec 26, 2005 5:14 pm Sharon to under go heart procedure. |
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| Quote: | JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will undergo a catheterization procedure in the next two to three weeks to repair a small hole in his heart discovered after he suffered a minor stroke, his doctors said Monday.
Dr. Haim Lotem, head of cardiology at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital, said the hole, less than an eighth of an inch wide, is a minor birth defect found in 15 to 25 percent of the population.
He said doctors plan to use a catheter to insert an "umbrella-like" device to seal the hole, located in the wall between the upper chambers of Sharon's heart. The procedure, guided by a small camera inserted through the esophagus, is routine, doctors said.
The hole was detected in testing following the December 18 stroke. Doctors concluded the blood clot that caused the stroke had lodged in the hole, restricting the flow of blood to Sharon's brain. Sharon is now being injected with a blood-thinning medication twice a day until the heart procedure, Lotem said.
"From our experience this is something that is only a minor birth defect. It doesn't need to be treated unless it causes problems," Lotem told reporters.
Doctors said last week that Sharon suffered no lasting damage. He was released from the hospital two days after the stroke and already has resumed his full workload.
But the health scare raised concerns about the 77-year-old leader's ability to work as he runs for a third term. Doctors met with reporters Monday following public pressure that Sharon's health records be made public.
Although Sharon had difficulty speaking during the stroke, neurological testing found that he recalled everything from the night of his admission, said Dr. Tamir Ben-Hur, neurology chief at Hadassah.
Doctors have ordered the overweight prime minister to go on a diet. Seeking to head off widespread speculation about his weight, Sharon's doctors said he weighed 260 pounds at the time of the stroke, and has already lost 5 pounds since then.
The catheterization procedure is known as "tzintur" in Hebrew, the same word used for angioplasty and angiogram.
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Republican_Man
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| Mon Dec 26, 2005 5:17 pm |
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Heard about this on the news. I hope all goes well.
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| Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:36 am |
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That man is a great example of eating too much, too often 
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| Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:47 pm |
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| Quote: | BBC NEWS
Ariel Sharon rushed to hospital
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been rushed to hospital feeling unwell - two and a half weeks after suffering a minor stroke.
An official in the PM's office would not confirm media reports he may have had a heart attack or another stroke.
The 77-year-old leader was said to be fully conscious and to be accompanied by his own doctor to the hospital.
Mr Sharon had been due to be admitted for surgery on Thursday for an operation to plug a hole in his heart.
He was at his ranch in the Negev desert in southern Israel when taken ill and transferred to the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem.
The Israeli leader suffered a minor stroke on 18 December which doctors said could have been the result of a blood clot caused by the hole in the heart.
His doctors said he recovered fully then but required minor surgery for the heart problem.
During the planned three-hour procedure, Mr Sharon's powers were to be transferred to his deputy, Ehud Olmert.
Mr Sharon, who has been prime minister since 2001, is severely overweight and his health looks likely to be a major issue in parliamentary elections due to take place in March.
He plans to run for a third term in office under his newly-formed centrist party, Kadima, after quitting the ruling Likud party in November.
Polls suggest his new party is in the lead ahead of the election.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4582574.stm
Published: 2006/01/04 21:34:22 GMT
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Yikes! I hope he gets well soon...
Addon- Doctors say it's a serious stroke, according to my BBC News Alerts thing... that'll be added to news reports as soon as they can write (type) them.
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| Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:04 pm |
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Fox News article:
| Quote: | Israeli PM Ariel Sharon Suffers 'Significant' Stroke
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
AP
JERUSALEM � Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke Wednesday and was on a respirator after falling ill at his ranch. Doctors operated to drain excess blood from his brain.
Powers were transferred to his deputy, Vice Premier Ehud Olmert.
Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, director of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, said Sharon suffered "a significant stroke," adding that he was "under anesthetic and receiving breathing assistance." A few minutes later, Mor-Yosef emerged to say that initial tests showed Sharon had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, or bleeding in his brain.
Mor-Yosef said Sharon, 77 and overweight, had "massive bleeding and was being transferred to an operating theater."
Dr. Shmuel Shapira of Hadassah Hospital told Channel 10 TV that Sharon was taken to an operating room to drain the blood after suffering what he termed a "massive stroke." Israeli TV said the operation would likely take several hours.
Sharon was put in an ambulance at his ranch in the Negev Desert after complaining about feeling unwell. Shapira said the stroke developed while he was being taken to the hospital, a drive of about an hour.
Sharon's personal physician said early Thursday that he expects Sharon to emerge from surgery "safely."
"The prime minister is currently in surgery, it is proceeding properly," said Dr. Shlomo Segev. "We need to wait patiently. "I expect him to emerge from it safely."
Channel 2 TV said Sharon was suffering from paralysis in his lower body. Analysts on Israeli TV stations said his life could be in danger.
The health crisis came hours before Sharon was to undergo a procedure to seal a hole in his heart that contributed to a mild stroke on Dec. 18. Since then, Sharon has been receiving blood thinners to try to prevent a recurrence of the clotting that caused the initial stroke.
Cerebral hemorrhages account for only about 10 percent of strokes and can result either from rupture of blood vessels or leaking due to too much blood thinner medication.
Doctors who have not examined Sharon but are experts in the field said his chances of a full recovery are slim.
"It's among the most dangerous of all types of strokes," with half of victims dying within a month, said Dr. Robert A. Felberg, a neurologist at Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. "Any time they give blood thinners to prevent clots there is a risk" that too much can cause a hemorrhage, he said.
"The fact that he's on a respirator means its extremely serious," said Dr. Philip Steig, chair of neurosurgery at Weill-Cornell Medical Center in New York. However, he said that depending on the severity of the stroke, doctors may be able to sustain Sharon on a respirator for weeks.
Sharon is about 5-foot-7 and weighs 250-300 pounds, but doctors checking him last month said he otherwise was in good health.
Cabinet Secretary Yisrael Maimon said Sharon's authority was transferred to Olmert because the premier was under general anesthetic.
The dramatic decline in Sharon's health comes as Sharon runs for re-election on March 28 at the head of a new centrist party, Kadima. He enjoys a wide lead in the polls. The party's strength is centered on Sharon, and if he were forced to step down, Israel's political scene would be thrown into turmoil.
Security agents and police spread out around the Jerusalem hospital before Sharon arrived, setting up a security perimeter. Later, they surrounded Olmert's residence in Jerusalem. Under Israeli law, Olmert is to serve as acting prime minister until Sharon can resume his powers.
On Dec. 18, Sharon was taken to Hadassah Hospital from his office after suffering the mild stroke. Doctors said he would not suffer long-term effects, but they discovered a birth defect in his heart that apparently contributed to the stroke.
Sharon had been scheduled to check into Hadassah Hospital on Thursday for a procedure to repair a tiny hole between the upper chambers of his heart. Doctors said the blood clot that briefly lodged in Sharon's brain last month, causing the mild stroke, made its way through the hole and from there to a cranial artery. Sharon first came to prominence as an army officer, setting up a unit that fought Palestinian infiltrators in the 1950s. Advancing through the ranks of the army, he served as commander of the Gaza region after Israel captured the territory in the 1967 war, launching punishing raids.
After serving in the 1973 Mideast war, Sharon left the military and entered politics, forging the hardline Likud Party, which came to power in 1977.
As defense minister, he directed Israel's ill-fated invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and was forced to step down by an Israeli commission of inquiry, which found him indirectly responsible for a massacre of Palestinians in two refugee camps by Christian Phalangist soldiers.
Sharon re-emerged as prime minister in 2001, and two years later he reversed his course of decades of support for Jewish settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank and Gaza, promoting a plan for unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and part of the West Bank. The pullout was completed in September.
The withdrawal fractured his Likud party, and he left it to form Kadima. He was putting together a list of candidates for the parliamentary election when he fell ill Wednesday. |
It's not looking good...I really hope he gets well. He's really been a solid force for peace there.
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| Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:48 pm |
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I know i saw on the news tonight he's paralyzed and has to under go emergency surgery. I really hope he pulls through it.
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| Quote: | Sharon's Doctor: Survival Prospects Good, Brain Damage Definite
JERUSALEM � Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's chances of surviving his severe stroke are very high, but his ability to think and reason have been damaged, one of his surgeons said Saturday.
The 77-year-old Israeli leader remained in critical condition, though his vital signs were stable and a brain scan Saturday showed a slight reduction in swelling.
Doctors are to decide Sunday when to begin lifting Sharon's medically induced coma to examine the severity of the brain damage.
"Tomorrow is the day of truth," Dr. Jose Cohen, one of Sharon's surgeons, told Channel 2 TV. "Tomorrow we will all know if what we did for him helped him or not."
Cohen said he was "quite optimistic" about Sharon's prospects for survival, which he said were "very high now."
But when asked about possible cognitive impairment, Cohen replied, "To say after such a severe trauma as this that there will be no cognitive problems is simply not to recognize the reality."
Cohen's comments appeared on Channel 2 as a transcript broadcast on the screen. He did not appear himself. It was not immediately possible to contact Cohen by phone, and Sharon's other surgeon, Dr. Felix Umansky, declined to be interviewed.
The comments reinforced a widespread assumption that Sharon will never return to power. Israelis from all walks of life have lamented Sharon's likely departure from the political scene. With his larger-than life persona and warrior credentials, he was seen as the man most capable of disentangling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
When waking Sharon out of his coma, doctors will be "looking for some sort of response," the Hadassah Hospital director, Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, told journalists outside. "If there is no response, that would be bad news."
Asked whether Sharon's life could be saved, Mor-Yosef replied, "We believe it's possible."
Sharon, who experienced a mild stroke on Dec. 18, felt weak Wednesday and was being rushed by ambulance to Hadassah from his ranch in southern Israel when a blood vessel on the right side of his brain burst, causing massive cerebral hemorrhaging.
He has undergone surgery twice to stop bleeding in the brain and to relieve pressure inside his skull. Although doctors treating him have not offered a prognosis, outside experts have said the outlook is grim. Aides said they do not expect Sharon to return to the prime minister's office.
Before his collapse, Sharon appeared headed to win a third term in office at the head of Kadima, a new, centrist party he formed to build on the momentum created by his seminal summer withdrawal of soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip.
Although Israel and the Palestinians have not managed to use the withdrawal as a springboard for the immediate revival of stalled peace talks, there had been hope that the process would resume after Palestinian elections in January and Israeli balloting in March.
It's far from clear if any of Sharon's potential successors would have the charisma, credibility and can-do spirit that helped the prime minister begin carrying out the historic task of drawing Israel's final borders.
King Abdullah of Jordan telephoned acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Saturday to express "hope that the Mideast peace process would not be affected by any circumstances and developments surrounding Ariel Sharon's illness," Jordan's official Petra news agency reported.
At synagogues throughout Israel, worshippers set aside political differences and recited a "mi sheberach" for Sharon � a prayer of well wishes. Israelis called out "Ariel, son of Vera," his mother's name.
David Zvuluni, huddled with three other worshippers outside his Jerusalem synagogue, said he opposed Sharon's Gaza withdrawal, but at this moment wished him only well.
"I don't believe there's a synagogue in the country that's not praying for Sharon," he said. "There are just a few lunatics, but the rest of the people of Israel are all praying for him, even those, like us, who opposed him."
Israelis also gathered outside Hadassah on Saturday to express their solidarity.
"We are waiting for a miracle," said Eli Grossman, 51, of Kfar Saba, a Tel Aviv suburb.
"For three days I have felt I had to do this, and today, I had the chance," said Rachel Buznak, 55, who lives in Lod, outside Tel Aviv. "I really respect and admire this man. ... He didn't live for himself, just for the state."
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Good news, but at the same time bad. I hope he pulls out.
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