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American actress Jana Kramer had to halt her shoot for "Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis" in Romania in 2005, after she was misdiagnosed by Romanian doctors who removed her appendix when she actually needed her gallbladder removed, she told Maxim magazine in an interview.

Romanian former General Mihai Chitac, sentenced to a 15-year prison term for the events in western city Timisoara in 1989, considered the precursors of the Romanian anti-communist revolution, was released Monday from jail in order to undergo surgery.

Romanian actor Gheorghe Dinica, 75, who underwent bile duct laparoscopic surgery Monday evening, is in critical condition and is receiving complex medical treatment and care, the Bucharest Floreasca Emergency Hospital said in a press release Tuesday.

Romanian singer Elena Carstea, who has been living in the United States over the past three years, is suffering from an aneurysm and will undergo brain surgery on August 12 at the JFK hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, Pro TV reported.

Cristi Minculescu, the frontman of Romanian rock band Iris, who had a liver transplant Tuesday morning in Germany, will undergo two more surgeries in the upcoming days, officials of the Regensburg hospital said Wednesday evening.

Romanian director Sergiu Nicolaescu was taken back to the intensive care section over abnormal cardiac rhythm issues, Dan Voinescu, head of the neurosurgery clinic with Bucharest’s Elias hospital, told a news conference Friday.