Francis Ford Coppola reassures fans after hospitalization in Italy

Italian-American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, 86, reassured fans after being admitted to a hospital in Rome, the capital of Italy, last Tuesday (5).

In a post on Instagram this Wednesday (6), the director of "The Godfather" said he is "taking the opportunity to update" his "30-year-old atrial fibrillation procedure with one of its inventors, the great Italian doctor Andrea Natale".

"I'm fine," said Coppola, who traveled to Italy to attend a festival in Calabria with his latest film, "Megalópolis," and to scout locations for his next feature.

The filmmaker was admitted last Tuesday morning to the Policlínico Tor Vergata Hospital due to atrial fibrillation, a type of cardiac arrhythmia characterized by accelerated and irregular heartbeats.

This problem can be treated by a procedure known as ablation, which involves using catheters to neutralize abnormal heart tissue.

Coppola has close ties to Italy and is the grandson of immigrants from Naples on his mother's side and Bernalda, in Basilicata, on his father's side.