Norway’s Queen Sonja has had a pacemaker implanted on Thursday after problems with heart fibrillation.
The Norwegian royal house writes this in a press release on Thursday morning.
– Her Majesty the Queen had a pacemaker implanted today. The intervention was successful and the queen is doing well, writes the royal house.
According to the plan, Queen Sonja will be hospitalized for one or two more days.
The 87-year-old queen was hospitalized on 11 January in Lillehammer after she suffered heart fibrillation on a ski trip.
The next day she was discharged. She had a normal heart rhythm, it sounded then from the Norwegian royal house.
A few days later it was announced that the Queen was to have a pacemaker. She arrived on Wednesday at Rikshospitalet in Oslo, where she has had the operation.
A pacemaker is an electronic device that records the electrical activity of the heart. With small electrical impulses, the pacemaker ensures that the pulse becomes normal if you have a too slow heart rhythm.
A pacemaker operation takes about an hour and is not considered to be particularly risky, cardiologist Ole Christian Mjølstad has explained to the Norwegian news agency NTB.
– It is clear that any intervention entails a certain risk, but in this case it is small. It is a routine operation, and those who perform the operation have a good handle on it, he said earlier this week.
Queen Sonja’s husband, King Harald, also has a pacemaker. He had it implanted in March last year. The 87-year-old regent fell ill during a holiday in Malaysia and was transported to Norway, where he underwent surgery.
King Harald has sat on the throne in Norway since 1991. He and Queen Sonja have two children, Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Märtha Louise.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
