“The case of Kun has a solution as long as the arrhythmia is benign”

Confirmation that the Kun Agüero will have to be away from the playing fields for a minimum of three months, after suffering a arrhythmia In the Camp Nou game against Alavés, he set off all the alarms about the Argentine’s state of health and caused doubts to grow as to whether the Barça forward could play again at a high level.

To clear up the unknowns surrounding the physical state of the When, MD contacted the Dr. Innocents Cusó Valls, a cardiologist at the Hospital El Pilar de QuirónSalud in Barcelona and who was in the medical team that intervened Johan Cruyff of his heart problem in 1991, and confirmed that there is a viable solution for Agüero to recover and can play soccer without major problems: the ablation.

“Ablation is a procedure that heals the heart tissue to block abnormal electrical signals and restores a normal heart rate. It is done with a catheterization. After an ablation, a normal person can lead a normal life 24 or 48 hours after the intervention, but in the case of an elite athlete, more caution must be exercised since the patient subjects the heart to high beats and that carries a risk higher. That is why the Barça doctors wanted to recover in health and pointed out that Kun Agüero should be a minimum of three months off, “said the Dr. Cusó, who added that Omen “He will have to carry out exhaustive controls” to control his heart rate but that in principle “he will be able to return to sports practice” if in these next few months he evolves well and the scar from the ablation heals as intended. “The intervention is not serious, but there must be a reasonable recovery time,” added the Dr. Cusó.

However, waiting to know in detail what type of arrhythmia the Kun Agüero, the Dr. Cusó clarified that there may be risk of withdrawal if arrhythmia is not benign and it creates problems in the Argentine’s heart rate again. “The normal thing is that it can return, but withdrawal cannot be ruled out,” said the cardiologist, who is confident that the case of When be left alone in a warning.

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