Seve Ballesteros has shown “a favourable trend in neurological status” after undergoing his third operation to remove a brain tumour. Ballesteros, who had his first operation on Oct 6 and the second two days later, underwent his most recent procedure on Thursday, Oct 23. It lasted all day but, by the end of it, doctors were confident they had succeeded in their mission to alleviate pressure on the brain caused by bleeding, and to remove remaining tumour tissue.
In the first statement released since Ballesteros’ third operation, a spokesman at the La Paz hospital said: “The patient, Mr Seve Ballesteros, has a favourable trend in his neurological status but needs to be further controlled in the Intensive Care Unit.”
Ballesteros’s tumour has been diagnosed as an oligoastrocytoma, one which affects two types of brain cells and is apt to spread “diffusely” in the brain cavity.
The golfer has been kept under sedation over the last few days and has undergone a trachectomy to help with his breathing.
However, hospital authorities have been at pains to stress that the procedure in question is nothing out of the ordinary.
“It is customary and it is part of protocol established for similar cases,” they said.
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