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Arafat has liver failure

Palestinian officials ponder moving him to Cairo

Agencies, Ramallah
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has liver failure and his condition is not improving at the French military hospital where he is being treated, a Palestinian official said yesterday.
The official, who declined to be named, said Palestinian officials were considering moving Arafat to hospital in Cairo, from where he could be flown home more quickly if he died.
But he added that any decision to move him could be taken only by the Palestinian leadership.
"He has liver failure. His condition is not improving," said the official.
He said a low count of platelets, which help the blood clot, meant blood transfusions were proving difficult
Doctors have ruled out leukemia but remain puzzled why Arafat’s health deteriorated sharply last week at the military hospital in a southwest Paris suburb where has been having tests since he was airlifted from the West Bank on Oct 29.
Earlier, a senior aide to the ailing Palestinian leader said Yasser Arafat was not in a coma but remained in intensive care Saturday after undergoing more medical tests. Test results were expected within days.
Nabil Abu Rdeneh, Arafat’s spokesman, would not say whether his announcement meant Arafat had emerged from a coma or whether he had not been comatose at all. He also refused to say whether he saw Arafat personally, and he did not specify the nature of the new medical tests.
"He is not in a coma," Abu Rdeneh told reporters after coming out of the French military hospital where Arafat has been treated for more than a week. "He is still in the intensive care unit
"He is under strict medical observance. W* hope that in the coming few days we will be able toknowexactlywhat he is suffering from. So far, nobody could diagnose the situation," he said at about midnight, addingthatArafat’s condition wasstable.
"Right now he is sleeping,"
Doctors have not yet made public any diagnosis, but the Palestinian envoy to France, Leila Shahid, said Friday that the 75-yvar-old Arafat was in a coma and "at a critical point between life and death."
Hospital spokesman Gen. Christian Estripeau described Arafat's condition as unchanged from Friday, when he said there had been no change - for better or worse—in his heal th
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Queri, in a bid to preserve calm, made a rare visit to the Gaza Strip for talks with rival Palestinian groups.
Queri met for four hours with representatives of the 13 major Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as security chiefs, lawmakers and officials of Arafat’s Fatah faction. Such abroad gatheringis extremely rare.
He was accompanied by Parliament Speaker Rauhi Fattouh, who would step in as a caretaker president of the Palestinian An thorityifArafat dies.
An Israeli newspaper reported Sunday that Queri asked Hamas to halt operations inside Israel to forestall Israeli retaliations and allow a new Palestinian leadership to establish itself.
Arafat first fell ill nearly a month ago with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea. He was flown to Rance from his Vtest Bank compound in Ramallah a week ago after briefly passing out On Wednesday, his condition deteriorated and he was moved to an intensive care unit
His ailment and condition have largely remained arnystery ever since.
Mohammed Dahlan, a former Gaza security chief and potential Arafat successor, was with Abu Rdeneh at the hospital, where they had an extended meeting with Arafat’s wife, Suha. and French doctors.
Dahlan said he would return to Ramallah via Amman, Jordan, later Sunday to brief the Palestinian leadership on Arafat’s health. He declined to provide details, other than to again deny persistent rumors that Arafat was brain deadoron lifesupport
About 100 Arafat supporters again turned out in front of the sprawling hospital outside Paris to show their supportThLychanted "Palestine Lives!" and held portraits of Arafat and Palestinian flags. Dozens of others marched through the streets in the southern cityofMarseille.
On Friday, Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath denied that Arafat was clinically dead or on a life-support system. But he also expressed concern at the lack of improvement in Arafat's condition.
Shahid said Arafat was in a coma and suggested it occurred after he was put under anesthesia to have additional medical tests, including an endoscopy, colonoscopy and a biopsy of the spinal cord.
Endoscopy and colonoscopy, where a camera is inserted through the throat or into the colon to inspect the intestine, involves sedation but not a general anesthetic, which would induce unconsciousness. However, a spinal cord biopsy is often done under general anesthesia.
In a co ma, brain cells react as if asleep because they are not getting enough blood, oxygen or sugar. The condition is either repaired during the state of coma, orthepatientdies.
Brain function is dulled to a certain extent for a short time in people under anesthesia and returns once the anesthetic clears the body But when patients arealready critically ill, they may fall into a coma if their bodies do not eliminate the anesthetic properly, said brain expert Dr. Eric Braverman, director of the PATH Medical Foundation in New York
If anesthesia was the sole cause of Arafat's coma, it is likely he will recover once the anesthetic wears off. However, if the coma was the result of serious medical problems, the chances of recovery would be smaller, Braverman said. (Reuters, AP)