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Doctor says Zanardi has 'very bad eye injury'

Jun.25 A doctor treating Alex Zanardi has admitted the former F1 driver's vision could be affected by his hand-cycling crash. Italian Zanardi, who lost his legs in a 2001 Champ Car crash, is still in a coma with serious facial and head injuries in the Santa Maria alle Scotte di Siena in Italy. We reported on Wednesday that the 53-year-old could lose his eyesight. "We have asked an ophthalmologist for advice," said head of emergency medicine Dr Sabino Scolletta. And one of the first emergency specialists to treat Zanardi, Dr Robusto Biagioni, said: "Without treatment, Zanardi would only have had minutes to live. "My colleagues found him deeply unconscious, with brief...
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