HRH Grand Duchess Maria Teresa underwent a successful surgery yesterday, as reported in the Luxemburger Wort newspaper.

The Grand Duchess’ surgery took place at the University Saint Luc Hospital in Brussels, Belgium. It was performed under the supervision of Professor Doctor Jacques Donnez, a renowned gynecologist. The surgery has been scheduled for some time, and was completed without any complications.

It is expected that the Grand Duchess will take several weeks off to recover from her surgery, and will resume her royal duties later this year.

Click here to read the current events thread for Grand Duchess Maria Teresa.

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Queen Sonja will be operated on her foot again. The 71 years old Queen-consort had problems with her feet for quite a while now.
The surgery is scheduled for June 22nd in the “Rikshospitalet” in Oslo.
It will be the Queen’s 4th surgery on her feet: she had already been operated in 2000, 2002 and 2004.

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The Queen’s engagements for late June and early July have been cancelled by the Royal Court.
The Royal Couple’s visit to Hordaland (16th to 18th of June) will happen as planned.

More about the surgery can be found here (article in norwegian).

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  Last Sunday, May 31, Queen Sofia and her sister Princess Irene of Greece flew from Santander, where the Queen was attending the celebration of the Spanish Armed Forces Day, to London on board a Ryanair flight to visit their brother Constantine II, Former King of Greece.

King Constantine is recovering from a heart operation in the Intensive Care Unit at Wellington hospital.

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Constantine II, Former King of Greece, is recovering in a London hospital from a successful scheduled heart operation.  An announcement on the family’s website, signed “Anne-Marie R” expresses gratitude for the well wishes and congratulations to the surgical team. “The messages of support, which we have been receiving from Greece and other parts of the world, have touched us all,” she notes.  The announcement also includes a brief progress statement from the Former King’s physician team.

The Former King, as expected, is recovering in the Intensive Care Unit at Wellington Hospital without any cardioventillatory support. No release date information was provided.

Further information, when available will be posted in this current events thread.

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 It has been reported that Daniel Westling, the fiance of Crown Princess Victoria, underwent a kidney transplant today to treat a congenital (but apparently not hereditary) kidney disease. The donor kidney came from Mr Westling’s father. Both Daniel and his father are reported to be doing well. The surgery apparently was scheduled some time in advance and is not an emergency procedure.

Crown Princess Victoria is currently in Greenland, along with Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Crown Prince Haakon of Norway.

For more details, see this thread.

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In a surprising announcement this morning, King Constantine’s London office announced via the family’s website that King Constantine II, Former King of Greece, will be undergoing ‘elective’ heart surgery on May 29 at Wellington Hospital, London.

The announcement stated:

His Majesty King Constantine [Former King of Greece] is scheduled to undergo elective cardiac surgery for calcific aortic stenosis with valve replacement using a bioprosthesis and a single-vessel bypass… and will be performed by Professor Gilles D. Dreyfus…Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon & the Director of Transplantation at Harefield Hospital and Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Imperial College, London.

Click to see more at Zimbio.com

In layman’s terms, one of the King’s arteries has become blocked or narrowed by cholesterol and is unable to properly send blood between the heart and the lungs.  This correction involves surgically cutting the artery at the blockage and rerouting blood flow.  At the same time, he will be having one of the four valves of the heart replaced.  The replacement, a bioprosthesis, will be made from one of three possible grafts – animal tissue, human tissue of a donated heart or rarely a patient’s own tissue. Patients with bioprosthesis usually do not need to take blood-thinning medicines but these valves are not as strong as mechanical valves and often need to be replaced every 10 years or so.  

Although both procedures are fairly common, they are not without risks. During surgery, patients are most often placed on a “heart and lung machine” so that the heart and lungs can be stopped for the entirety of the procedure. Patients are usually closely monitored for the first few days after surgery in an Intensive Care Unit to ensure there are no post surgical complications.

The Wellington Hospital, a private hospital in London, has one of the top Intensive Care Units (likely where King Constantine will recover post surgery) and has a well respected specialty cardiac unit.

Information, when available will be posted in this current events thread.

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 Prince Bernhard, a nephew of Queen Beatrix, has undergone intestinal surgery to remove benign tissue in his bowel.

The surgery took place yesterday at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, and was performed by Dr WA Bemelmans. The RVD reported that the surgery went to plan, and the Prince is recovering. The Prince underwent a similar surgery in April last year, and is known to suffer from Crohn’s disease.

More information on Prince Bernhard can be found here.

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 It has been reported that Crown Prince Frederik has undergone surgery to repair a fractured leg. He sustained the injury during the family’s skiing holiday in Switzerland a few weeks ago. Apparently he injured his leg while riding on a sled with his children, but was unaware of the injury for a while after it happened. There were no reports at the time of any sledding accidents, and Prince Christian and Princess Isabella appear to have been unaffected by the incident which caused Prince Frederik’s injury.

Since his skiing holiday, he has taken part in a sailing competition in Florida, even though he had an injured leg.

He will have to wear a cast on his leg for several weeks while it heals.

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