Reply #40: latest: from AP: Sharon shows "significant improvement"

[Minstrel Boy]

AP, January 6, 2006 - 11:22

JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon showed "significant improvement" after five hours of emergency brain surgery Friday, with doctors stopping the bleeding and relieving the pressure inside his skull, a hospital official said.

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"During surgery, the increased intracranial pressure was released, part of the blood clots that remained after the first operation were drained," he said. "At the end of the operation, there is no active bleeding and the intracranial pressure has returned to normal."

"I can say that in comparison to previous CT scans . . . there is a significant improvement in the way the brain exam looks to Hadassah's experts," Mor-Yosef said.

He said the prime minister was in "stable, but serious" condition.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20060106-0805-israel-sharon.html