soccer great Diego Maradona was released Monday from a hospital in the Venezuelan city of Maracaibo where last weekend he underwent an adjustment to a previous gastric bypass operation.
As reporters were told at the Falcon Clinic, the former soccer player left the medical center at noon after being given the all clear by Dr. Carlos Felipe Chaux, who performed the surgery.
Maradona must remain another 10-12 days in Venezuela so he can recover completely.
The Argentine is staying at Maracaibo's Hotel Intercontinental where rooms have been prepared especially to receive him.
Maradona is accompanied in Venezuela by close friend Alejo Clerici.
The operation performed Sunday, which took some 3 1/2 hours to complete, was rated a success by Dr. Chaux.
"We successfully corrected his gastric bypass, and the operation was a success," the surgeon, who had been on the medical team that operated on Maradona a decade ago in Cartagena, Colombia, told the daily La Verdad.
Among the reasons why specialists chose Maracaibo for the surgery is because the city is home to the Obesity and Metabolism Surgery Unit of the Falcon Clinic, selected as the facility for the surgery, Dr. Chaux told reporters.
Another of the reasons given by the Colombian doctor is that the Venezuelan city is at a lower altitude than Bogota, which, he said, is better for surgeries like this.
He also said that Maradona "considers Venezuela a place that has welcomed him as one of its sons, so that he feels more comfortable here."
"He would rather be operated here in Venezuela than anywhere else in the world," the doctor said.
The man who led Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup was operated for the first time 10 years ago when suffering from "morbid obesity" associated with problems of hypertension and heart problems
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