The Wife of Brazilian Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Marisa Leticia, Dies
The Wife of Brazilian Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Marisa Leticia, Dies
02/03/2017 - 19H54
MARINA DIAS
FROM BRASÍLIA
MONICA BÉRGAMO
FROM SÃO PAULO
The former first lady Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, 66, died on Friday (03) victim of complications caused by a strokes.
According to a person very close to Lula's family, there has been an increase in Marisa's cerebral pressure and also pressure on a cerebral edema that she has as a consequence of a hemorrhagic stroke that she suffered a week ago.
The family doctor, cardiologist Robert kafil Filho, told journalists last night that the prognosis for the former first lady is "irreversible". The former president's family on Thusday morning (the 2nd) authorized the procedures for donating her organs.
Marisa Letícia has been under treatment at the Sírio-Libanês hospital in São Paulo since January 24th, when she suffered a cerebral vascular event.
On Monday (the 30th), an exam detected the occurrence of "deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs".
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Marisa, helping her husband, when he strugged with a brain tumor, slightly before the time Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo also was afflicted by the same disease, and before the time Dilma Rousseff, herself, also became ill with the same disease.