Silvio Berlusconi has chronic
myelomonocytic leukemia, according to a medical buulletin on the
three-time ex-premier's condition issued by his personal
physician Alberto Zangrillo Thursday.
Zangrillo, head of anaesthesia and intensive care at Milan's top
San Raffaele Hospital where the media billionaire is being
treated, said Berlusconi had been suffering from this for some
time.
The goal of his therapy is to limit the effects of the leukemia,
Zangrillo said.
"President Silvio Berlusconi is currently in intensive care to
treat a lung infection. The infectious event is framed in the
context of a chronic blood condition of which he has been a
bearer for some time," said the bulletin, signed by Zangrillo
and by bone marrow transplant chief surgeon Fabio Ciceri.
"The ongoing therapeutic strategy foresees the treatment of the
lung infection, a specialized cyto-reductive treatment aimed at
limiting the negative effects of the patholological
hyperleucocitis and the restoration of his pre-existing clinical
conditions".
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