MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) - CSKA Moscow Ukrainian goalkeeper
Serhiy Perkhun remained in a coma in a Moscow hospital on
Tuesday after he clashed heads with another player in a Russian
premier division match at the weekend.
'He remains in a coma,' CSKA spokesman Sergei Aksyonov said. 'At the moment Perkhun has unstable blood pressure and
unstable breathing as a result of losing consciousness after the
injury,' Aksyonov quoted CSKA doctor Artyom Katulin as saying.
'But the doctors remain cautiously optimistic that his
condition will improve.'
Aksyonov said that Perkhun's condition worsened on Monday
night as a result of his transfer from a Makhachkala hospital to
a special Moscow military hospital.
'Today his condition has not changed and remained serious
but stable,' the spokesman said.
The 23-year-old Ukraine international suffered the injury
after he clashed heads with Anji Makhachkala striker Budun
Budunov in the second half of Saturday's match, which ended 0-0.
Initially, Perkhun was taken to an emergency ward in a
Makhachkala hospital with swelling of the brain, and Russian
media quoted local doctors as saying that they gave him only a
five percent chance of survival after he lost consciousness on
the way to hospital.
Perkhun, who has an open wound to his skull, was transferred
to Moscow on Monday, while Budunov remained in an intensive care
ward in a Makhachkala hospital with serious concussion.
Aksyonov said the club had received thousands of letters and
telegrams from across the country, wishing the goalkeeper a
speedy recovery. 'We're all praying for him,' Aksyonov said.
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