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majordad said:
I've noticed him missimg from the Mercedes screen shots in the pit garage recently and wondered. a very complex individual and in all a great driver and manager.
Yes same here, I did wonder. The last time I saw him on TV his colour was well off. I thought hmm, but then the next time on screen he looked quite jaundiced.
Niki Lauda is no stranger to transplants mind. go look it up!!
Hoping for the best of news, fingers crossed.
ELUSIVEJIM said:
Wonder if his lungs were damaged after his horrendous accident or is it a new medical condition?
Hopefully a quick recovery.
I would imagine the smoke did him no favours, especially as he had to have his lungs continuously drained (according to the 'Rush' film anyway).Hopefully a quick recovery.
He's a nice bloke, I've always admired him even though I wasn't even an itch in my father's pants when he last won a race in F1. I wish him well.
sgtBerbatov said:
I would imagine the smoke did him no favours, especially as he had to have his lungs continuously drained (according to the 'Rush' film anyway).
He's a nice bloke, I've always admired him even though I wasn't even an itch in my father's pants when he last won a race in F1. I wish him well.
I remember reading the Monday morning headlines saying "Lauda Fights for Life". It was the weekend I had travelled to the UK for the big Greenham Common Air Show of 1976 and I had travelled back to Ireland on the overnight Holyhead car ferry. I read the headline on a newspaper of a Monday morning commuter who was reading his paper on the train I took into Dublin city centre from Dun Laoghaire ferry port.He's a nice bloke, I've always admired him even though I wasn't even an itch in my father's pants when he last won a race in F1. I wish him well.
That was the first time I'd heard the news.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/137837/lauda-mak...
One of the doctors who operated on three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda says he is making good progress in a Vienna hospital after his lung transplant on Thursday.
Lauda underwent surgery in Austria after falling ill while on holiday in Ibiza. He was flown by private jet to the AKH Vienna hospital, where he remains in intensive care while he recovers from the surgery.
Dr Walter Klepetko, who is the hospital's head of thoracic surgery, told Austrian broadcaster ORF that "everything is currently going very well and we are very satisfied".
Klepetko said the usual recovery period for such a procedure is two to three weeks, but explained that 69-year-old Lauda's recovery period will be "a longer time" due to his age.
The hospital performs 120 lung transplants a year.
One aspect of Lauda's situation that Klepetko did clarify was that his fiery accident at the Nurburgring in 1976 had had no bearing on the decision to replace his lungs. "One can absolutely assume that lung transplantation is not a late consequence of the fire accident," he said.
One of the doctors who operated on three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda says he is making good progress in a Vienna hospital after his lung transplant on Thursday.
Lauda underwent surgery in Austria after falling ill while on holiday in Ibiza. He was flown by private jet to the AKH Vienna hospital, where he remains in intensive care while he recovers from the surgery.
Dr Walter Klepetko, who is the hospital's head of thoracic surgery, told Austrian broadcaster ORF that "everything is currently going very well and we are very satisfied".
Klepetko said the usual recovery period for such a procedure is two to three weeks, but explained that 69-year-old Lauda's recovery period will be "a longer time" due to his age.
The hospital performs 120 lung transplants a year.
One aspect of Lauda's situation that Klepetko did clarify was that his fiery accident at the Nurburgring in 1976 had had no bearing on the decision to replace his lungs. "One can absolutely assume that lung transplantation is not a late consequence of the fire accident," he said.
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-autosport/99892...
Flu led to pneumonia then "severe lung disease"...
Flu led to pneumonia then "severe lung disease"...
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