The Vatican said Pope Francis rested at a hospital in Rome on Monday and spent 10 days in pneumonia over the past 10 days, a complex infection that now has his kidney problems put him in critical condition.
“The night was fine, the pope was sleeping and was resting now,” the Vatican said in a statement Monday morning, but it did not provide additional information about the health of 88-year-old Pontive.
Officials are expected to update his condition on Monday night, which the Vatican said he also suffered from “the initial mild kidney failure.”
The Vatican said that at present, kidney problems are “controlled.” It said the “asthma breathing crisis” the pope experienced on Saturday was not repeated.
The Vatican said the pope was “smart and well-oriented” and tests showed that his anemia improved due to blood transfusions.
Francis, who had removed part of his lungs as a young age, suffered a range of health conditions in recent years, but this was his longest hospitalization for lung infections.
Sergio Alfieri, a surgeon with the Pope’s medical team, said Friday that the pope told him he knew his vulnerability and that “both doors are open.”
From the beginning, an elderly person hospitalized with pneumonia was in danger. The American Thoracic Society reports that pneumonia gives older patients a greater risk of death than any other hospitalization.
Peter Chin-hong, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Francisco, said kidney failure is a common sign in older people, especially ominous signs.
He added that elderly patients hospitalized for pneumonia due to pneumonia infection may experience kidney failure, which can cause inflammation because the body tries to fight the disease, or has low blood pressure or low oxygen levels in the blood. Some antibiotics can also affect kidney function.
But no matter the reason, the prognosis is very poor. A recent study found that more than one-third of hospitalized elderly patients with pneumonia die, and more than half of them die, compared with similar patients whose kidneys have not failed.
Timothy Dolan said in a gay lewd Sunday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York that Francis was “very very, very fragile and could be close to death” as he urged Pray faithfully for Pope Eiger.
Many people around the world gathered to pray for Francis, the spiritual leader of nearly 1.4 billion Roman Catholics. From the Policlinico Agostino Gemelli Hospital in Rome, the Pope received the treatment of the Pope in a dedicated Pope apartment, to Korea, to his hometown of Argentina, faithful and faithful guards and prayers.
