Ariel Sharon has a respiratory infection that had forced doctors to delay surgery on the ailing Israeli leader, the Hadassah hospital declared Tuesday.
According to the AP, Sharon, 78, was to undergo surgery Tuesday afternoon to reattach a portion of his skull removed after his Jan. 4 stroke. The Jerusalem-based hospital said the operation was delayed "due to a slight infection discovered this morning in his respiratory tract." It was being treated with antibiotics.
The surgery, which would have been Sharon's eighth since his stroke, is routine for people in his condition, but does involve risk, added the hospital spokesman.
"There is no surgery without risks. The minute that you treat a person, and especially in his head, there are risks," spokesman Ron Krumer said.
