Date Published: 11/28/09

Yar'Adua's organs failing ...Entourage fears he may not make it

...As Turai returns next week

Turai Yar'Adua

Musa Yar'Adua

Fears have heightened over the state of health of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as Doctors at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital And Research center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia have disclosed that the President’s organs are no longer responding.

And not minding the state of health of her husband, wife of the President, Hajia Turai Yar’Adua has scheduled to return to Nigeria next week.

Only recently, doctors officially confirmed that President Yar’Adua is suffering from “acute pericarditis,” a deadly ailment that result from Churg–Strauss syndrome.

Very credible source in Jeddah told pointblanknews.com that Doctors at the Jeddah hospital have further confirmed that President Yar’Adua’s organ are now failing, an indication that the President may after all not be responding to treatment being administered to him.

According to the source, “am afraid all his organs are failing. We have a serious mess in our hands. Madam is coming back without him.”

In an earlier statement signed by Dr. Salisu Banye, a personal physician to President Yar’Adua, it had said “The medical review and tests undertaken at the hospital have confirmed the initial diagnosis that the president is indeed suffering from acute pericarditis. He is now receiving treatment for the illness and he is responding remarkably well."

The pericardium (pair"e-KAR'de-um) is the thin sac (membrane) that surrounds the heart and the roots of the great blood vessels.

Pericarditis (pair"e-kar-DI'tis) is inflammation of the pericardium. The pericardium has an inner and outer layer with a small amount of lubricating fluid between them. When the pericardium becomes inflamed, the amount of fluid between the two layers increases. This squeezes the heart and restricts its action.

This problem occurs most often in men ages 20 to 50. Chest pain is common, especially pain behind the breastbone. Sometimes this pain spreads to the neck and left shoulder. Pain from pericarditis is different from angina (AN'jih-nah or an-JI'nah). (Angina is chest pain or discomfort due to reduced blood supply to the heart muscle.) Angina feels like pressure, but pericarditis usually is a sharp, piercing pain over the center or left side of the chest. Often this pain gets worse if the person takes a deep breath. Less often the pain is dull. A fever is also common. Often people with pericarditis report feeling sick. Some have pain when they swallow.