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CALCUTTA (Reuter) - Mother Teresa's condition improved slightly Wednesday with doctors saying she had no breathing problems or chest pain as members of her Roman Catholic religious order prayed for her recovery.
"She is slightly better but restless because of the medication and the various investigations," A.K. Chatterjee, administrator of Calcutta's B.M. Birla Heart Research Center, told reporters.
"She didn't have any breathing problem in the afternoon. There were no chest pains."
Doctors earlier delayed an angiography X-ray test to see if the 86-year-old nun needed surgery.
"She is not out of danger now. Things can turn bad at any moment," Dr Tarun Praharaj, a member of her medical team, said.
Chatterjee said the doctors had not yet decided when the X-ray test would be done, but said he expected the decision to be taken late Wednesday or early Thursday.
Members of her Missionaries of Charity religious order prayed for the recovery of the 1979 Nobel Peace prize winner.
"We are having prayers all over the world for her recovery," Sister Priscilla, the order's spokeswoman, said.
Calcutta's Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs joined in prayers.
The charity, devoted to the poor, destitute and dying, has about 4,500 nuns in some 80 countries.
Chatterjee said Mother Teresa spoke to her doctors on Wednesday, and said: "I pray for all of you."
"The whole world is praying for you," Chatterjee quoted Dr Praharaj as replying.
"We are all praying and we believe she will be alright," said Mohammed Halim, an inmate of the order's Nirmal Hriday (Innocent Heart) home in Calcutta, eastern India.
"She gave us shelter and saved us from a shameful death in Calcutta's streets. God will save her," he said.
Doctors said they would have to stabilise Mother Teresa before deciding when to carry out an angiography, in which X-rays and an opaque dye are used to find arterial blockage.
The Roman Catholic nun was moved to the clinic Tuesday from the nearby Woodlands Nursing Home, where she was admitted last Friday after with an irregular heartbeat.
Doctors had said Tuesday that Mother Teresa might undergo an angiography Wednesday.
But late Tuesday, Praharaj said she was "clinically unstable" and ruled out the test for at least a couple of days.
Mother Teresa, known as the "Saint of the Gutters" for her work with the poor, was fitted with a heart pacemaker in 1989.
She has undergone coronary angiography twice -- in the United States in 1991 and at the Birla center in 1993.
Both times she subsequently underwent angioplasty, in which surgeons insert a balloon into an artery, then inflate it to unblock the artery.
Praharaj said the X-ray would show if a third angioplasty was necessary. But he added that Mother Teresa had more severe health problems now, notably a chest infection, than in 1993.
Dr S.K. Sen, medical director of the Woodlands Nursing Home, said Mother Teresa had ischaemia, or hardening of the arteries. Her heart has failed several times since last Thursday.