Emergency surgery for Ballan after high-speed crash

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[rich p]

I hope he recovers fully before they ban him.

 

[Keith Oates]

Sounds like a serious amount of damage, hope he get's over it without any complications!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ColinJ]

I wouldn't wish those injuries on anyone, drug cheat or not so I hope he makes a quick recovery.

(PS I love that route in both directions. I've done it many times on my Costa Blanca cycling holidays.)

 

[oldroadman]

Serious stuff, I can't recall anyone racing at a good level with only oe kidney, although having two seems to be a bit of mother nature redundancy, as you can function well on just one. A relative of mine did for about 40 years. Whether the extra strain of racing would be tolerable for a one kidney rider, it's difficult to say, but I suppose the medics will be able to offer some guidance. Spleen not so much of an issue, Geraint Thomas lost his after a crash some few years back, and he's doing OK!
The important thing is to get well, then worry about whether racing at world tour level is possible. At a later stage in a career, the DS or other team support role may be an option if full on racing is out.

 

[rich p]

He didn't lose a kidney as far as reports say. So he may recover well enough without a spleen, and from the femur fracture, to serve out his suspension healthily.

 

[carterusok]

yeah,me too,Sounds like a serious amount of damage, hope he get's over it without any complications,thanks

 

[ColinJ]

Alessandro Ballan to make full recovery from BMC training camp accident

http://www1.skysports.com/cycling/n...full-recovery-from-BMC-training-camp-accident

I think it is stretching the definition of 'full recovery' since he no longer has a spleen and that can have serious long-term effects on health.

In one study that appeared in The Lancet in 1977, for example, researchers compared a group of 740 American veterans of World War II who had had their spleens removed as a result of battle injuries with a similar size sample of veterans who had suffered other war injuries but had kept their spleens. The splenectomized men, the researchers found, were twice as likely to die of cardiovascular disease as were the veterans in the control group.

 

[johnr]

He's back home now according to Sky