Saved thanks to a routine check-up: the fear was bad, but prevention saved Flavio Briatore, who underwent heart surgery at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan and was discharged after his post-operative recovery. “Medical prevention is essential!” the manager wrote on social media, explaining that he had undergone heart surgery where a benign tumor had been found. Following a routine check-up – the entrepreneur, who will turn 74 on April 12, said in a video – I underwent heart surgery because I had a benign mass which was removed with a minimally invasive operation, using an endoscopic technique. “. “The operation was a perfect success, and I – he added – warmly thank Professor Francesco Maisano, the team of the Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Unit and the legendary 1st Q Department of San Raffaele”. Alongside the manager, in these days of hospitalized, there was his ex-wife Elisabetta Gregoraci, to whom Briatore was married from 2008 to 2017. In addition to her, his son Nathan Falco, “who came from Monaco”.
Video Briatore underwent heart surgery: ‘Prevention is fundamental’
In his video Briatore thanks both of them for being close to him, but “the main thing – he underlined – is to do prevention, I did it two years ago and this benign tumor wasn’t there and this year it was there, for which we must not neglect: prevention, I tell you who have been through it, is fundamental. Ten days in hospital and here I am, starting tomorrow – he concluded – we start again”. “They were intense and difficult days but we overcame them together”, wrote Elisabetta Gregoraci on Instagram, posting some photos taken together with Briatore at the San Raffaele in Milan, where the manager was hospitalized. In various stories, where she also published the hospital room number, the showgirl says she has been close to her ex-husband in the last ten days, for this “delicate and unexpected operation and post-operative recovery”. “Let’s take this moment to remind ourselves how futile everything is with respect to health. She’s going home” concluded the showgirl. Among the comments on the manager’s post, there is also a heart left by Heidi Klum, Leni’s mother, whom he had with Briatore
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