Thai doctors drain water from 病んでいる king's brain

Doctors 扱う/治療するing Thailand's 病んでいる King Bhumibol Adulyadej have drained a fresh build-up of water on the brain, the palace said Sunday, in the 最新の in a 一連の updates of the 88-year-old's health.

支配する to an 激しい personality 教団, Bhumibol's frail health is a 事柄 of 重要な public 関心.

The king is 限定するd to a 車椅子 and rarely seen in public but in 最近の months the palace has begun 解放(する)ing 正規の/正選手 updates on his health.

Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej is the world's longest-reigning monarch

Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej is the world's longest-統治するing 君主 ?Pairoj (AFP/とじ込み/提出する)

His 統治する has spanned seven tumultuous 10年間s and most Thais have never known another 君主.

分析家s say the kingdom's 10年間-long political 危機 is in part 動機づけるd by エリートs jostling to 安全な・保証する their primacy once his 統治する ends .

Bhumibol has spent most of the past two years hospitalised in Bangkok for a 一連の 病気s, 含むing bacterial 感染s, breathing difficulties, heart problems and hydrocephalus (water on the brain).

An x-ray on June 30 設立する the 量 of fluid draining from the king's brain through a catheter "was いっそう少なく than normal," the 王室の 世帯 Bureau said.

"The 医療の team asked 許可 to adjust the catheter to drain more fluid on 2 July... the result was 満足な," it 追加するd.

In June Bhumibol also underwent an 操作/手術 to 広げる arteries in his heart.

Sunday's 声明 said 実験(する)s showed his heart muscle was now 機能(する)/行事ing "satisfactorily."

Bhumibol is the world's longest-統治するing 君主 and is seen by most Thais as a 統一するing 軍隊 in a nation 激しく divided along political lines.

His image is embossed by ritual -- Thai schoolchildren learn of his good 作品, cinema-goers must stand for the 王室の 国家, while 巨大(な) portraits of the 君主 tower over most major roads.

But 詳細(に述べる)d discussion of his 統治する and the 役割 of the 君主国 is all but impossible in Thailand because of one the world's strictest lese majeste 法律s.

Use of the 法律s has 急上昇するd in the last two years since the 軍の took over in a クーデター with some people 刑務所,拘置所d for as much as 30 years.

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