Doctor Horia Roşianu from the Heart Institute in Cluj Napoca stated on Wednesday that the actor Florin Piersic had septicemia when he was admitted to the medical unit. According to him, the knee prosthesis and the pacemaker had to be removed, which were secondary foci of infection.
“The situation was of a patient with septicemia, with a generalized infection in the blood, with a complex antibiotic treatment, but who had two particularities, namely two prosthetic areas: knee prosthesis and prosthetic material in the heart, i.e. the pacemaker with the two probes his. It is a well-known principle in medicine that prosthetic materials cannot defend themselves, they do not have sufficient immunity against a severe infection, in other words, in those areas bacterial germs colonize and evade antibiotic treatment, so a general principle says that they should extracted all the prosthetic materials to allow the antibiotic treatment to act against the germs that cause the septicemic infection. The knee prosthesis should have been removed. Of course, it is an action that we cannot undertake, it does not belong to our specialty, but at the same time, unfortunately, as surely could be expected, the pacemaker probes also became infected, probes that are directly in heart”, said Horia Roşianu, on Wednesday, in a press conference, according to News.ro.
He specified that, in order to solve the problem of infection, it was necessary to remove the knee prosthesis and the pacemaker.
“On the night of Friday to Saturday, we returned to the country as a family, on Saturday morning, together with Mr. Manager, together with Mr. Doctor Ştef, the head of intensive therapy, together with an orthopedic colleague from the Military Hospital and with other colleagues from cardiology , holding a multidisciplinary working meeting, we made a thorough visit to Mr. Florin Piersic and our conclusion was very clear: the secondary foci of infection, the knee prosthesis and/or the probes and the pacemaker must be removed. Both should be removed so that you can solve the problem of septic infection”, explained the doctor from the Heart Institute.
Florin Piersic was transferred, on Tuesday evening, from Cluj-Napoca to Bucharest, with a SMURD plane, which was in Hungary for a NATO exercise.
Florin Piersic, aged 88, underwent knee surgery at the Cluj-Napoca Military Hospital, later being transferred to the Cluj-Napoca Heart Institute to be monitored by doctors, having a pacemaker.
The actor underwent surgery after he fell ill at the end of a show, and doctors found he had an infection in his knee, which has apparently spread.
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