Chicago cardinal returns to intensive care to monitor minor bleeding

Published: 2006-08-08

CHICAGO (CNS) -- Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George returned to intensive care at Loyola University Medical Center Aug. 5, after some bleeding was discovered as he recovers from cancer surgery. On July 27 Cardinal George, 69, had a five-hour operation to remove his bladder, prostate gland and sections of his ureters -- the tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder -- at the hospital in Maywood, Ill. Just before midnight that night, he went back into surgery after his blood pressure became unstable; doctors found a small bleeding artery and closed it off. A few days later he was moved to a general medical/surgical wing. On Aug. 5 the Archdiocese of Chicago announced in a brief statement that the cardinal had that morning undergone an upper endoscopy and other tests to investigate what was described as "usually minor" bleeding that tends to stop on its own. As of early Aug. 8 he was still in intensive care.

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