Russian figure star Kostomarov “dies”

Doctors are doing everything they can to keep Roman Kostomarow (46) alive, the Russian Olympic figure skating champion in 2006. After a suspected Covid infection, he contracted pneumonia – with serious consequences: gangrene broke out, tissue died. First Kostomarow’s feet and then his hands had to be amputated.

Several cerebral hemorrhages, brain swelling, meningitis and two strokes followed. The doctors decided to put the former top athlete in an artificial coma. Now his body is too weak to wake him up, Russian media report.

“Amputation was the beginning of the end”

When he was admitted to the hospital on January 10, everything looked like ordinary pneumonia. Then one fate followed the next. Kostomarov is now unconscious. A doctor speaks of a “total failure” of his body.

“The amputation was the beginning of the end,” attending physician Irina Jartseva told “Women.ru.” “He had a complete failure of all systems. Unfortunately, a natural process is now taking place. The body slowly dies.”

Kostomarow’s immune system “failed on all levels”. According to the doctor, all measures and medical interventions turned out to be “powerless”. “If the immune system can’t fight, no medication will help,” says another source. The doctors are afraid to bring him out of the coma. First, Kostomarov is artificially kept alive. (kes)

Source : Blick