Abidal's Recovery A 'Miracle' - Doctor

Started by Folami David, Apr 10, 2013, 02:47 PM

Folami David

One of the surgeons who performed Barcelona defender Eric Abidal's liver transplant on Tuesday hailed his miraculous recovery, assessing that it broke new ground for the surgery.
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Juan Carlos Garcia-Valdecasas helped carry out the 33-year-old's transplant a year ago and has said that to see him return to playing top-class professional sport was unprecedented.
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"My first objective was that he would continue to live and enjoy a high quality of life with his family," he told Catalan radio station RAC1.
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"Now we can say that the recuperation has been a miracle, an extraordinary case, because precedents like his don't exist.
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"The majority of patients can live a normal life, even 90 percent have an extraordinary quality of life, but his case is not normal.
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"Medicine continues to set new goals and Abidal has marked another one for us going forward."
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The Frenchman returned to the pitch for the first time in 14 months towards the end of Barca's 5-0 win over Mallorca on Saturday.
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Garcia-Valdecasas said he believed that if required, the player was in the right physical shape to take part in Barca's crucial Champions League quarterfinal second-leg against Paris Saint-Germain.
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"He is a Barcelona player and is in the squad. He wants to be there, he wants to play and therefore I don't think we should treat him in a different manner.
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"I didn't have any idea he was going to return this Saturday, although I knew that sooner or later he would return to playing. I haven't spoken with him but he could perfectly well play against PSG."
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Garcia-Valdecasas also confirmed that Abidal's statement at the weekend that he would like to continue playing for a couple more years was perfectly attainable.
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"If everything goes well, he could continue for two more years."


Shola Sholaz

Such things happen in football. Maybe his zeal to play again made the wound heal faster. I say congratz to him and his club

Folami David

Miracle or no miracle, it is great news for Barcelona Football Club. Let's see if he would feature tonight

Folami David