He may lose sight in his right eye - Toidze on Mikheil Saakashvili

In the city court, neurologist Dr. Otar Toridze talked about several diseases of the third president and said that they are fully compatible with the exemption from serving the sentence. Toidze explained the state of cachexia and said that it began about 8 months ago.

"Cachexia is a condition where there is a catastrophic loss of weight, it has its parameters. There is a loss of a certain percentage of weight over a certain period of time, there is also a body mass index indicator, either one or the other must coincide with this, these are direct criteria and there is also side criteria, it's anorexia, lack of mood and so on, there are 10 criteria listed in total. Since the neurological examination requires a thorough examination of the patient, we monitored his weight, monitored the circumference of his limbs. I have a table, I can present it to you, but probably we have to believe that approximately, During the 6 months we observed, the main atrophy was in the limbs, especially in the tibia and the front shoulder. The first signs of atrophy, you remember the conclusion of the public defender, if I'm not mistaken, the fourth where it is described that the muscles of the temple are torn, which is the first sign of cachexia. That is, cachexia has started somewhere 8 months ago and when we We decided to monitor the patient, these are the last days of November, for that period he was a few kilograms short of the satisfactory criteria for cachexia. Today, unfortunately, I don't know the data, perhaps there is already a stage of cachexia," said Otar Toidze.

In addition, Toidze named diagnoses of dementia and mental disorders. At the same time, he said that Mikheil Saakashvili might lose sight in his right eye.

"During the first 3 months of his placement in the penitentiary system, he was seen twice by an ophthalmologist and the conclusion is that he is healthy. In the "Vivamed" clinic, from the second examination, the so-called degenerative changes of the retina at the bottom of the eye appear, what is called maculopathy, which coincided with the deterioration of vision in the right eye. Maculopathy is a degenerative disease that continues to progress. In principle, in the worst case, one will lose sight in one eye, if it has not spread to the other side. We do not have the latest ophthalmological findings, if I am not mistaken, the last conclusion is somewhere in October," Toidze said.