Pele: Brazil great back in hospital
Brazil football great Pele is stable in hospital in Sao Paulo after being admitted for the second time in six months, this time to have prostate surgery.
A spokesman for the Albert Einstein Hospital in the city confirmed the 74-year-old had been admitted and said he had undergone a transurethral resection of the prostate on Tuesday.
He is in a stable condition according to their statement.
Local news site Globoesporte earlier reported that Pele was suffering a prostate condition called hyperplasia, which they said could increase the risk of urinary tract infection.
Pele was released from the same hospital in early December following a two-week stay which followed surgery to remove kidney stones.
After developing an infection, he was placed in intensive care for five days.
His only kidney - the other was removed following an injury during his playing days - had stopped working and he had to be treated with haemodialysis, a procedure that involves filtering a patient's blood through an artificial kidney.
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