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Report: Sharon undergoes emergency surgery
(AP)
Updated: 2006-01-06 18:21
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was rushed back to surgery
Friday after a brain scan revealed a rise in pressure on his brain and more
internal bleeding, doctors said.
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The General Director of the Hadassah Hospital
Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef pauses as he gives a statement to the press about the
health condition of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon outside the
emergency room of the hospital in Jerusalem, Israel, Friday, Jan. 6, 2006.
Sharon's vital signs, including cranial pressure, were steady Friday,
following emergency brain surgery for a massive stroke, and his doctors
said he would remain in a medically induced coma for at least two more
days. [AP]
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Sharon's blood pressure
also rose and one of his brain lobes expanded slightly, said Dr. Shlomo
Mor-Yosef, the director of Hadassah Hospital, where Sharon is being treated.
Sharon's aides rushed to the hospital to be with him during the surgery, his
second in two days.
"It was decided to bring the prime minister to the operating room in order to
deal with these two issues, to drain the bleeding and to decrease the
intracranial pressure," he said.
Shimon Peres, Israel's elder statesman and a Sharon ally, said he was "very
worried."
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