Overview

• The Italian Swimming Federation confirmed the double surgery took place on July 25 at Ospedale di Sassuolo.
• Surgeons performed an elbow arthroscopy to remove an intra-articular screw and graft cartilage from a 2024 fracture.
• In the same operation Dr. Stefano Manzieri reduced a fracture at the base of the third phalanx of Paltrinieri’s left fourth finger.
• Medical staff estimate a complete functional recovery and resumption of training within six to eight weeks.
• On Instagram Paltrinieri thanked his medical team and quipped that he was offered a kilogram of pizza after the operation.