NEW details about President Umaru Yar�Adua�s health have emerged, pointing to an apparent wrong diagnoses of the ailment from the beginning by his Nigerian doctors.
SaharaReporters gathered that after suffering swellings all over his body on Saturday, April 12 2008, Yar�Adua was flown out to Germany the following night after he barely managed to perform a widely publicised budget signing ceremony from his private residence in the presence of Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan.
Though Presidency sources had downplayed the latest health crisis as some �allergic reaction,� knowledgeable medical sources claimed that Yar�Adua�s current condition can only be managed for sometime , but cannot be cured. It was gathered that his German doctors had communicated this to him since last year.
Yar�Adua’s medical condition degenerated a long time ago because he was allegedly misdiagnosed and treated for asthma for a long time.
His physician in Nigeria continued treating Yar�Adua for asthma with steroids, leading to further damage to his health and associated mood changes, the German physician was said to have observed.
His real ailment, SaharaReporters was told, is known as �Churg-Strauss Syndrome�, a disorder, according to medical journals, �that causes inflammation in blood vessels (vasculitis), which restricts blood flow to various organs.�
The disorder is believed to have damaged Yar’Adua’s kidneys before it was properly diagnosed.
�Although the disease may involve any organ, most commonly it affects lungs and the skin. The restricted blood flow to these organs can cause temporary or permanent damage.�
Asthma, for which Yar�Adua�s physicians had treated him for a prolonged period of time, is a common feature of Churg-Strauss Syndrome. The disorder does not have any known cure.