Alexei Navalny remains in a medically induced coma after he was apparently poisoned, but doctors treating him in Germany say the Russian activist's condition is stable.
The central building of Charité hospital in Berlin, where doctors say Alexei Navalny's condition has slightly improved. The Russian activist was poisoned, the hospital says.The central building of Charité hospital in Berlin, where doctors say Alexei Navalny's condition has slightly improved. The Russian activist was poisoned, the hospital says.
"While his condition remains serious, there is no immediate danger to his life," the hospital said inBut citing"the severity of the patient's poisoning," the hospital says it's still too soon to know what kind of long-term effects the poison could have on Navalny. Navalny, 44, has been treated at Charité since Saturday after an emergency medical flight took him from Siberia, where he was apparently poisoned. He is in intensive care.
German doctors say Navalny was poisoned by a cholinesterase inhibitor, meaning it disrupts the body's ability to break down acetylcholine — an important neurotransmitter in the brain and body. That revelation came days after his arrival from Russia, where physicians had claimed there were no traces of poison in Navalny's system.
Some cholinesterase inhibitors are used to treat neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. But others are used in insecticides and as nerve agents, according to the U.S.
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