Husband of Suzana Alves, former tennis player Flávio Saretta cries when reporting rare head disease and surgery: ‘It could be fatal’

Former tennis player Flávio Saretta, 42, reported this Wednesday, 8, on social networks, to have discovered a rare disease in the head. Married to former Tiazinha Suzana Alves, he reported that he was hospitalized for eight days in a hospital in São Paulo and underwent emergency surgery last weekend after being found to have a rare brain problem.

Thrilled, Saretta reports that on January 31 he had a blackout and fainted while running on the treadmill. He was then rushed to the hospital.

“I went straight to the emergency room. I did a large battery of tests, a CT scan, and they found something different in my head, in the brain. I do another CT scan as a contrast and they find a direct connection between an artery and a vein, which is it, in a way, rare. If I hadn’t discovered this, it was certain that I would have a stroke or something that would be fatal and lead to death, without me knowing it, because, until then, I thought I was very healthy”, he reported.

He said that three days ago he underwent a delicate surgery and that he could have lost his sight:

“It was all right, thank God. They closed that connection that had between the artery and the vein, which could have had a bleed when I passed out. It’s still not known when this problem arose in my head. I’m still a little shot , recovering. I scraped my knee a lot when I passed out on the treadmill”.

“It was a very tough eight days in the hospital, a lot of fear too, but everything went well. At least that head problem is already solved. I have to do other tests in a few months to be sure. If I hadn’t fainted, I wouldn’t have known that I would have it in my head and it could be fatal. This surgery wasn’t so simple either, I could have lost sight in my right eye, but it all worked out. It was the biggest scare of my life”, he added, crying .

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