 Zsa Zsa Gabor is being monitored closely after her right leg was amputated. AFP photo |
Ailing actress Zsa Zsa Gabor had most of her right leg amputated Friday, doctors said, adding that the 93-year-old was in frail health and being monitored closely.
The flamboyant star, who was read the last rites during a health scare last year, has been receiving antibiotics in hospital since just after New Year due to an infection. Doctors finally decided they had no alternative but to remove her leg, as the infection had entered the bone.
"Ms. Gabor needed an amputation above her knee due to poor circulation and a large ulcerated area on her right leg," said David Rigberg, associate professor of vascular surgery at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
"After consulting with her husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, we felt this was the best medical course of action. The surgery today went well, however, she is in frail health so we will continue to monitor her closely."
Before Friday's operation her spokesman John Blanchette said she would die without the surgery.
The Hungarian-born actress's health has been deteriorating for a number of years. She was partly paralyzed in a car crash in 2002, and suffered a stroke in 2005.
Last July she was hospitalized after she fell and broke her hip. She underwent hip replacement surgery but suffered more complications, including a blood clot for which she received more surgery.
During another hospital stay in August, she called a priest into her room to administer the last rites, then left the hospital a day later insisting that she wanted to be back home in her posh Bel Air home.
"This has been a long, tough road since 2002 when she had an accident that originally disabled her," he said. "She has never been able to walk and her health has spiraled down," her spokesman said.
The flamboyant star, who was read the last rites during a health scare last year, has been receiving antibiotics in hospital since just after New Year due to an infection. Doctors finally decided they had no alternative but to remove her leg, as the infection had entered the bone.
"Ms. Gabor needed an amputation above her knee due to poor circulation and a large ulcerated area on her right leg," said David Rigberg, associate professor of vascular surgery at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
"After consulting with her husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, we felt this was the best medical course of action. The surgery today went well, however, she is in frail health so we will continue to monitor her closely."
Before Friday's operation her spokesman John Blanchette said she would die without the surgery.
The Hungarian-born actress's health has been deteriorating for a number of years. She was partly paralyzed in a car crash in 2002, and suffered a stroke in 2005.
Last July she was hospitalized after she fell and broke her hip. She underwent hip replacement surgery but suffered more complications, including a blood clot for which she received more surgery.
During another hospital stay in August, she called a priest into her room to administer the last rites, then left the hospital a day later insisting that she wanted to be back home in her posh Bel Air home.
"This has been a long, tough road since 2002 when she had an accident that originally disabled her," he said. "She has never been able to walk and her health has spiraled down," her spokesman said.
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