the Favaloro Foundation press release

Jorge Lanata (60) were operated. This was reported by the Favaloro Foundation through a statement he distributed to the media. Although the operation took place on Monday, it did not appear until Tuesday morning with the good news of the positive result.

“The University Hospital of the Favaloro Foundation informs that Mr. Jorge Ernesto Lanata was subjected yesterday to a Laparoscopic, scheduled surgery“begins the aforementioned text, which is signed by the medical director Matías Fosco and the head of the renal unit Pablo Raffaele.

In addition, it is specified that for the moment “the patient will remain in the establishment in order to carry out an adequate follow-up and an evaluation”.

From the journalist’s environment, they explained to Bugle that the intervention “went well” and that it was a “soft” procedure.

Jorge Lanata’s last hospitalization

In May, the journalist spent a week interned in Miami, where he had traveled with his girlfriend, the lawyer Elba Marcovecchio, to shoot a documentary and get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

After recording a few lines of fever, it was therefore initially assumed that he had Covid-19, while he was already vaccinated, the journalist suffered a hisopado whose result was negative.

Thus, he was referred to the prestigious Mount Sinai Medical Center from that Florida city, where El Trece’s driver was determined to be suffering from urinary tract infection.

Fortunately, the doctors decided that his painting was not serious. However, they arranged for him to stay one week in observation for its complicated health history.

It is that, two months before going to the city of Miami, Lanata had been operated by a Cardiac arrythmia and an arterial pathology.

This intervention was carried out in the Favaloro Foundation, where they practiced a angioplasty left leg “and subsequent revascularization due to his peripheral arterial disease”.

One day after being operated on, the driver of Journalism for all (El Trece, Sunday at 10 p.m.) he received the medical discharge to continue “his treatment at home”.

“It was a bit complicated, but now I’m fine. I survived once again. I have a few studies in progress, but I’m doing well, ”he said on this occasion.

Jorge Lanata’s health

The renowned journalist had several hospitalizations in recent years. In August 2020, for example, he underwent surgery, also in the Favaloro Foundation for a forunculus.

It was a “scheduled laparoscopic surgery“, The medical part of which also bore the signatures of Matias Fosco and Pablo Raffaele, the same professionals who have provided details about their health over the past few hours.

In 2019, meanwhile, he was hospitalized for 11 days due to a photo of gastroenteritis. And, a few weeks later, he suffered a diabetic neuropathy.

But, without a doubt, the journalist’s most important surgery took place in 2015, when received a kidney transplant.

This operation represented the first cross kidney transplant in Latin America. Is this his ex-wife, Sara stewart brown, donated a kidney to a young man so that her husband could receive his mother’s.

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