Overview
- The 58-year-old former world champion said in a new video he will return home with a subcutaneous defibrillator to manage dangerous ventricular rhythms.
- Cipollini described how doctors provoked the arrhythmia during an electrophysiology study and delivered an electric shock after he lost consciousness.
- He previously had a loop recorder implanted, which transmitted abnormal data and triggered his readmission for invasive testing.
- The procedure took place at the arrhythmology and cardiology clinic of Torrette di Ancona, which he praised under director Professor Antonio Dello Russo.
- Posting from his hospital bed, he called it a complicated day and cited lingering effects of anesthesia and morphine while reassuring fans that he is okay.