Edoardo Bove has had a defibrillator fitted after the Fiorentina midfielder’s on-pitch cardiac arrest earlier this month, based on widespread Italian media studies on Tuesday.
Sky Sport and Gazzetta Dello Sport report that the operation was carried out on Tuesday morning on the Careggi hospital in Florence, the place he 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 methods was rapidly dominated out.
Bove has been awake and present process checks in hospital for simply over every week and is reportedly set to be discharged within the coming days after his operation.
Contacted by AFP, Fiorentina refused to touch upon the studies, but when confirmed the set up of a defibrillator would imply Bove’s soccer profession in Italy is in danger attributable to stringent well being rules which govern sport within the nation.
Christian Eriksen needed to depart Inter Milan in 2021 within the wake of his cardiac arrest and collapse whereas taking part in for Denmark at that yr’s European Championship.
Eriksen was banned from taking part in in Italian soccer after having an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, or ICD, fitted however now performs for Manchester United and nonetheless represents his nation.
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