The President of Romania Traian Basescu is to undergo surgery today in the Military Hospital, Bucharest because of a thyroid gland trouble. Whether it is cancer or not it will be found out afterwards. Nicolae Vacaroiu, a president of the Romanian senate, is taking over the President's attributions for the hours the latter will be under total anesthesia.
Autonomous knot on the right thyroid lobe, the President's disease, was detected last June. The surgery, which Presidency Administration describes as routine, is to be supervised by experts coming from three different hospitals, one of them the C.I. Parhon Endocrinology Institute.
Despite the calming information coming from Cotroceni Palace, specialists say things are not that certain. Apart from the risks involved in any surgery, they mention some form of cancer can't be out of question.
Cancer or hyperthyroidism ?
Since the press releases from Presidency Administration are so vague, Romanians are wondering what thyroid disease is President Basescu suffering from and why is the surgery necessary, since it isn't about cancer. The endocrinologists ZIUA has talked to have tackled it, starting from the very scarce information and medical clues leaking from Presidency Administration yesterday, with the latter institution trying to muffle the President's real state of health.
Civil society seems shocked to hear the news about the surgery President Basescu must absolutely undergo in a Romanian hospital, given the tragic denouement of the surgery performed on His Holiness the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
The first press release from Cotroceni Palace used key-word to confuse public opinion. Endocrinologist Dan Peretianu, a Ph. D. in medical sciences, opines the use of a word such as "routine" next to "surgery" in the communique from Presidency "is misleading, inducing the idea there is no severe health problem". (...)
"Thyroid cancer is usually settled by surgery", doctor Peretianu explains. It is therefore a mystery why patient Basescu did not undergo a biopsy by modern means that exclude surgery. (...)
D.E.I. & S.A.
Ziua Sambata 8 Septembrie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
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