“Javier Altamirano showed a favorable evolution and a good initial response to treatment,” advertisement Students of La Plata through his social networks, in a publication that he accompanied with a photo of the Chilean player from a few weeks ago, when the midfielder was training with the squad and no one imagined the outcome of last Sunday, when he convulsed in the first half and alarmed everyone. in the match against Boca for the Professional League Cup.
Due to the seriousness of the situation, which included the rapid entry of an ambulance onto the playing field to treat the player and the transfer to a hospital less than 500 meters from the stadium, the match was suspended. Since then, Argentine football was left pending on his evolution and the medical reports, which on this occasion included a determination by the doctors.
“The referral to the Fleni Institute was decided, recognized and highly complex specialized center, to continue with the treatment,” expands the publication of the La Plata entity. Altamirano remains in intensive care, a condition of care, not because his health has deteriorated, but because the specialists They want to know if you need surgery or can continue with treatment to dissolve the thrombosis that affected his brain function and led to the seizures.
Altamirano’s situation is still complex, which implies that there are still no certain deadlines for recovery time and its scope. In the meantime, studies will continue to be carried out to establish a more clear picture. That is why it is not ruled out that he stays at Fleni after these tests, since the Platense Medical Institute is not a place specialized in this type of pathology.
On Wednesday afternoon, the footballer was taken by ambulance from the hospital where he was and taken to the sanatorium in the Belgrano neighborhood. Hours before, a neurologist from Fleni had arrived in La Plata, saw him and, according to the newspaper El Día, reported that he was “everything perfect.” A healthy outlook for everyone, mainly for his wife, who is pregnant and was on the court following everything that happened that night, and for his mother, who traveled from Chile on Wednesday.
In addition, it was learned that Altamirano is lucid, awake and in good spirits, and that the treatment is being “supervised by the best doctors and neurologists in the country.” Expectations are that the recovery will continue on the same positive path, from now on. The diagnosis of his cerebral thrombosis that caused the seizures is “very rare among young people.” He is 24 years old.
In this context, Estudiantes received the news of another absence from their squad, because one of their players had a feverish state and when diagnosed by the medical team, they were informed that it was a a case of dengue. That’s why, Gaston Benedetti He is hospitalized for control and treatment.
For the footballer it was not the best early birthday gift: this Thursday he turns 23 years old. The defender brought another share of concern, on a smaller scale, to the Pincha club, which is experiencing difficult times after what it experienced with Altamirano.
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