The Olympic champion was admitted to the hospital on January 10 with progressive pneumonia. The 45-year-old figure skater was soon transferred to the intensive care unit of Kommunarka, doctors revealed sepsis in the body. The Honored Master of Sports of Russia was first connected to a ventilator, and then to ECMO, a device that saturates the blood with oxygen.
By the way, they decided to turn off Roman from ECMO, but after that he had a relapse, the athlete could not breathe on his own. Atrial fibrillation, one of the forms of cardiac arrhythmias, was added to the complications. Now the famous skater is in a coma, experts continue to fight for his life. Relatives, friends, and colleagues worry about Kostomarov’s health.
“I went to church several times, prayed, lit a candle for his health, because he needs our help now. In general, this is the last person about whom I would think that he could ever get sick like this: just a healthy man, a real athlete, ”shared Honored Coach of Russia Alexander Zhulin.
