Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was admitted this Friday to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan (northern Italy) to undergo a series of "scheduled" checks for his leukemia, as confirmed by his medical team, who ruled out any "critical aspect or other alarms".
"President Silvio Berlusconi is currently admitted to the San Raffaele Hospital to undergo scheduled controls for his known hematological pathology," read a statement from the health center.
And he adds: "The advance, to today, of these controls responds to normal clinical criteria in medical practice and does not respond to any critical aspect or alarm."
Berlusconi, 86, thus returns to the hospital three weeks after being discharged, after spending 44 days hospitalized for pneumonia aggravated by leukemia that, according to what his medical team revealed at the time, he has been suffering from for a long time.
This weekend the tycoon was scheduled to meet at his mansion in Arcore (north) with the top brass of his party, the conservative Forza Italia, part of the current government coalition led by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
The eldest daughter of the politician and businessman, Marina Berlusconi, president of the family's holding company, Fininvest, has appeared at the hospital.
One of the first to wish him "strength" was his friend Matteo Salvini, Vice President of the Government and Minister of Infrastructure.
His previous hospitalization began on April 5 in the San Raffaele Intensive Care Unit due to pneumonia and after twelve days he was transferred to the ward. He was finally discharged on May 19, after being hospitalized for 44 days.
During that time he was accompanied at all times by his girlfriend, the deputy Marta Fascina, 53 years younger, and received visits from his closest collaborators, from his partners, such as Meloni, and from his family, such as his five children, in addition of many friends.
From the hospital, the tycoon even appeared in two videos: one to encourage Italians to vote in local elections and another to intervene in his party's convention, in which he claimed to be "ready" to return to battle. .
The medical report from his trusted doctor, Alberto Zangrillo, revealed that Berlusconi was being treated for a "lung infection" caused by "a chronic hematological condition that he has been carrying for a long time: chronic myelomonocytic leukemia."
Chronic myeloid leukemia is a form of blood cancer that can appear especially in people over 60 years of age and the doctors then specified that he was undergoing "specialized cytoreductive treatment" and chemotherapy.
Over the years, Berlusconi has been hospitalized on several occasions: on one of them a pacemaker was implanted, while he was also admitted for covid-19 and on one of the most recent, in January 2022, he was admitted for a urinary infection.
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