The health of Javier Altamirano: Estudiantes gave good news on the condition of the Chilean footballer who had an epileptic attack against Boca

Students of La Plata This Saturday he released a statement that brought serenity and hope to Pincha fans and Argentine football fans in general: Javier Altamiranothe Chilean midfielder who collapsed in the middle of the match against Boca is recovering at the Fleni Institute and will leave intensive care to continue treatment in a common room.

Altamirano fainted in the 27th minute of the first half in the match between Estudiantes and Boca, last Sunday, in La Plata, for a match valid for the eleventh date of the Professional League Cup. ANDThe Chilean player began to have convulsions to the desperation of his companions and colleagues.

The Chilean footballer was treated on the pitch by doctors from Estudiantes and Boca, and was transferred almost immediately by ambulance to the Platense Medical Institute, where he remained in intensive care until Wednesday, when he was transferred to the Fleni Institute, in Buenos Aires, Belgrano neighborhood.

The club’s initial report indicates this Altamirano had reported thrombosis of the superior longitudinal sinus of the brain. Clarion He consulted with Dr. Facundo Rodríguez, coincidentally Fleni’s neurosurgeon, who explained the pathology to him.

“Thrombosis is essentially an occlusion of the sinus due to a thrombus. Just as a heart attack is generated when an artery is blocked, here in Altamirano it has happened that the superior longitudinal sinus has suffered an obstruction”, illustrated the neurosurgeon graphically in a broad explanation. .

As detailed in the newspaper El Día de La Plata, Altamirano had been awake since Sunday night and in good spirits, having received support from his family. His pregnant wife had to be treated that same Sunday for a nervous breakdown and his mother left Chile urgently on Tuesday. Six days after the episode that paralyzed Argentine football with fear, news of relief and hope is arriving for the Chilean footballer and for those around him.