Sami Khedira had surgery due to heart rhythm disorders. In the case of the successful intervention of pathological areas were deserted in the heart muscle tissue. His former team-mate Stephan Lichtsteiner underwent, 2015, of a heart SURGERY. The Swiss was allowed to train after a month’s break. the Javier Cáceres
Sami Khedira, 31, and Stephan Lichtsteiner, 35, have not at first glance have much in common: Of a midfielder and German world champion; the other defenders, and Swiss national player, and thus without international title. Both have played three years together at Juventus, the current employer of Khedira. Now you have a topic of conversation that you both had to do without, an amazing coincidence. Both heart rhythm disorders suffered – and had to be operated on by the Italian specialists, Fiorenzo Gaita.
As the light of Steiner, the intervention in the case of Khedira, was, according to Juventus perfectly. “I will be after a short break, will be able to go back to work,” said Khedira shortly after the Operation in a social network. If the procedure was a catheter ablation, pathological areas are desolate in the heart muscle tissue – under “hypnosis” for the purpose of relaxation and “with three-dimensional techniques”, such as the Gazzetta dello Sport wrote on Thursday. The arrhythmia was more pronounced in Khedira less and treat, therefore, “easier” than in the case of Lichtenstein, it said.
light Steiner was allowed to after a month break, play again
In the light of Steiner 2015 were operated on both the small and the large heart chamber, in an approximately 90-minute Operation. The Swiss was allowed to play after a one-month break. His Comeback he celebrated at Borussia Moenchengladbach in the Champions League, he scored the 1:1 goal for Juventus. Meanwhile, the Swiss at Arsenal FC in London is hired.
While Khedira is the heart rhythm disorders at a day of training have been identified, complained Lichtsteiner during a game on complaints. He had felt a frenzied pulse, and had fought through the first 45 minutes, as a the case Person familiar with it recalled. In the break, Lichtsteiner was exhausted then, so that he will be replaced, and in a hospital. The symptoms had quickly calmed down again, it is a long followed by time-ECG, and other investigations related to a genetic disease has failed to reveal. It was not classified as an acute life-threatening surgery, he had to be still.
Steiner was, however, not only medically, but quasi ex officio. In order to maintain his professional license, had to Lichtsteiner to demonstrate in a study in Rome, that his disease was healed, the exercise of the profession as a professional footballer, nothing. Italy is at the heart of problems of footballers in the European comparison as extremely rigid. But even that could not prevent tragedies such as the death of Fiorentina captain Davide Astori in the year 2018.
