Alex Zanardi underwent a new surgery today at the hospital in Siena: the maxillofacial and neurosurgery professionals performed it. The operation, the third for the sample, was aimed, it is explained, "at the cranio-facial reconstruction and stabilization of the areas affected by the trauma reported following the accident of 19 June". The intervention, says the hospital in a note, is part of those "planned by the multidisciplinary team that takes care of the athlete to allow any continuation of the therapeutic path". The surgery lasted about 5 hours. Zanardi was then hospitalized again in the intensive care unit: he remains sedated and mechanically ventilated: "His conditions - explain the health professional - remain stable from the cardio-respiratory and metabolic point of view, serious from the neurological point of view, the prognosis remains confidential .
"The fractures were complex" - explains Professor Paolo Gennaro, director of the Uoc maxillofacial surgery of the Aou Senese, adding that "this required an accurate programming that made use of computerized, digital and three-dimensional technologies, made to measure The complexity of the case was rather singular, even if - concludes Gennaro - it is a type of fracture that we routinely face in our center ". Zanardi, it is always explained by the hospital, "is evaluated daily by the professionals who take care of it and on the basis of this, also in agreement with the Zanardi family, the Aou Senese communicates that the next bulletin will be issued as soon as there are significant changes in the athlete's clinical picture ".
