Edoardo Bove has had a defibrillator fitted after the Fiorentina midfielder’s on-pitch cardiac arrest earlier this month, Italian media reported on Tuesday.
Sky Sport and Gazzetta Dello Sport reported that the operation was carried out on Tuesday morning on the Careggi hospital in Florence, the place Bove has been since collapsing throughout Fiorentina’s Serie A fixture with Inter Milan on December 1.
The match was stopped after which referred to as off whereas Bove was rushed to the intensive care unit, the place severe harm to the 22-year-old’s central nervous and cardio-respiratory techniques was rapidly dominated out.
Bove has been awake and present process assessments in hospital for simply over every week and is reportedly set to be discharged within the coming days after his operation.
Fiorentina later stated that “the operation which Edoardo Bove underwent was profitable” with out specifying the precise process.
“Edoardo contacted the membership a couple of minutes in the past and stated that he’s wonderful and can proceed his post-operation restoration programme earlier than being discharged from hospital within the subsequent few days,” stated Fiorentina.
If confirmed, the set up of a defibrillator would imply Bove’s soccer profession in Italy is in danger as a result of stringent well being rules that govern sport within the nation.
Christian Eriksen needed to go away Inter Milan in 2021 within the wake of his cardiac arrest and collapse whereas enjoying for Denmark at that yr’s European Championship.
Eriksen was banned from enjoying in Italian soccer after having an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, or ICD, fitted however now performs for Manchester United and nonetheless represents his nation.
AFP
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