Olivos (Argentina) (AFP)
Diego Maradona will stay in hospital for several days following the operation for a hematoma on his head on Tuesday in Buenos Aires, his doctor, Leopoldo Luque said Thursday.
The 60-year-old Argentinian football idol has had "episodes of confusion related to a context of abstinence that requires treatment for several days," said the practitioner at a press conference.
Maradona "agrees" with this diagnosis, added Luque, one of the surgeons who participated in the operation considered a success.
The 1986 world champion has repeatedly claimed that he has not used cocaine for years, but according to relatives and the press, he is now addicted to alcohol.
"Diego is doing very well. The tomography went well," added the doctor, who had said earlier in the day that his patient wanted to be released from the hospital in Olivos, north of Buenos Aires, where he is being treated. .
The 1986 world champion was hospitalized Monday in La Plata, 60 km south of Buenos Aires, due to anemia and dehydration.
Examinations had revealed the presence of a subdural hematoma.
He was then transferred to the private clinic Olivos, in the municipality of the same name.
Diego Maradona's life has been punctuated by many health problems, some of which are linked to excesses of all kinds which have sometimes made him flirt with death.
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