Pope Francis, who was hospitalized last week, has inflammation of both lungs, and tests still indicate a "complex clinical picture," the Vatican.
Today's recording showed the beginning of bilateral pneumonia, which requires further treatment, but the Pope is in a good mood, reported the Vatican News portal.
Laboratory tests, X-rays and the Holy Father's clinical condition still present a complex clinical picture, it added.
The statement indicates that the pope's "polymicrobial infection, which arose in the context of bronchiectasis and asthmatic bronchitis and required the use of corticosteroids and antibiotics, makes the therapeutic treatment more complex."
The Pope had pleurisy as a young man, for which part of one of his lungs was removed, and lately he has been prone to lung infections.
Source: Phonet
