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Edoardo Bove has had a defibrillator fitted after the Fiorentina midfielder’s on-pitch cardiac arrest earlier this month, in response to 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 critical harm to the 22-year-old’s central nervous and cardio-respiratory techniques was shortly dominated out.
Bove has been awake and present process exams 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 as a result of stringent well being laws which govern sport within the nation.
Christian Eriksen needed to go away Inter Milan in 2021 within the wake of his cardiac arrest and collapse whereas enjoying for Denmark at that 12 months’s European Championship.
Eriksen was banned from enjoying 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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