Jolanda Neff se recupera en el hospital tras una dura caída

La ciclista profesional Jolanda Neff se recupera en el hospital de Mission en Asheville, Carolina del Norte (Estados Unidos), tras haber sufrido un duro impacto que ha puesto en juego su vida y en la que ha estado ha estado a punto de perder el bazo.

La suiza de 26 años, vigente campeona de la Copa del Mundo de XCO, explica a través de su cuenta de Instagram, los graves daños sufridos en la caída producida al salirse de una curva e impactar contra una pila de troncos de ramas puntiagudas cuando rodaba a gran velocidad.

“Mis pulmones colapsaron parcialmente, me rompí una costilla y el bazo, lo que causó una hemorragia interna. Para detener el sangrado, el equipo médico primero quiso extirparme el bazo con una cirugía de emergencia, pero afortunadamente el equipo de trauma en el Hospital Mission en Asheville, Carolina del Norte, tenía un experto que podía hacer un procedimiento llamado embolización, lo que significaba ingresar en la arteria de mi pierna para subir a la arteria de mi bazo y bloquearla con un tapón".

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Hi everyone, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! While I was riding my mountain bike in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina, I came off the trail at high speed and crashed onto a pile of tree trunks with spiky branches. My lungs partially collapsed, I broke a rib, and my spleen got ruptured which caused internal bleeding. To stop the bleeding, the medical team first wanted to remove my spleen with emergency surgery but luckily the trauma team at Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC, had an expert who could do a procedure called embolization, which meant he went into the artery of my leg to go up to the artery of my spleen to block it with a plug. I am very lucky to be in such good hands!! @luca_shaw has been taking such great care of me and I can’t thank him and his fantastic family enough for being here for me 24/7. Also big thanks to @steelcitymedia for getting me out of the woods. The people at Mission Hospital did an excellent job in a life-threatening situation and my guardian angel has been amazing the last couple days. Trek has been super supportive and sent me a bouqet of beautiful flowers. I‘m still in a lot of pain and breathing is hard, but my condition is stable now. I’m sleeping a lot. Further plans have not been made yet. Thank you to everyone for your messages! Jolanda 🖤

Una publicación compartida de Jolanda (@jolandaneff) el 26 Dic, 2019 a las 6:59 PST