With Agency reports
Basketball star Lamar Odom reportedly suffered 12 strokes, following his collapse at a brothel in Nevada, Las Vegas earlier this month.
Doctors have only just discovered them following a series of brain scans.
TMZ reports that they have affected Lamar’s ability to walk and talk and Lamar is also believed to be suffering from ‘major kidney failure’
It has been claimed that he may need to undergo a kidney transplant.
A source has claimed the athlete’s organs are all functioning at various levels again, but ‘his kidneys are shot’.
The insider told the site that Lamar, who is said to be suffering from aspiration pneumonia, is set to have six hours of dialysis – a process to remove waste and excess water from the blood and is used primarily as an artificial replacement for lost kidney function – a day, but could eventually need a kidney transplant.
Doctors in Los Angeles are also planning to perform more tests on his brain in a bid to establish the full extent of the damage from the strokes.
