“Kostomarov will have quite a long treatment and recovery” – doctor Rezepov

Doctor Alexander Rezepov believes that the Olympic figure skating champion Roman Kostomarov It will take a long time to heal and recover.

The hospitalization of Kostomarov, 45, was announced on January 10. A source told on Thursday that doctors are considering disconnecting the former skater from the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine as his condition has improved.

– We must first deal with the diagnoses that we know. At the moment we know that Kostomarov has pneumonia and sepsis in his lungs. But you must understand that sepsis covers the whole body, so the lungs are only the beginning of the development of sepsis.

Pneumonia is a very serious disease from which people often die. This is a serious condition that can lead to respiratory arrest. I hope Roman will come out of this, the athlete’s body is stronger than that of an ordinary person. It is very difficult to make predictions now, but the situation with pneumonia is almost always difficult. Roman will have quite a long treatment and recovery, because often pneumonia is accompanied by complications in the form of bronchial asthma or bronchial ecstasy – these are, in common parlance, holes in the lungs. Complications can go in any direction, so there’s no need to talk about them now, but complications are very likely in Kostomarov’s position.

Even Roman’s doctor will not tell you the prognosis, because the body can behave unpredictably with such diagnoses. Predictions can only be made when blood tests are normal and general condition returns to normal. Now everything is in the hands of Kostomarov’s doctors, I really hope for the power of medicine,” Sport24 Rezepov quotes.

Kostomarov, together with Tatyana Navka, won the gold medal at the 2006 Games, became two-time world champion and three-time European champion.

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