• World Neurosurg · Aug 2016

    Review Historical Article

    Management of subarachnoid hemorrhage in two important Italian political leaders: a paradigm of ethical and technological evolution of neurosurgery during the past half-century.

    • Pierluigi Longatti, Ermanno Giombelli, Giacomo Pavesi, Alessandro Carteri, and Alberto Feletti.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Treviso Hospital - University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
    • World Neurosurg. 2016 Aug 1; 92: 559-564.

    AbstractFor a curious and extraordinary coincidence, 5 of the 7 most relevant leaders of the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, which was established in 1921, has been the biggest Communist Party in Western Countries) suffered a cerebral stroke. Cerebrovascular diseases afflicted also Stalin and Lenin, and a number of Presidents of the United States. We present the stories of 2 important Italian political leaders who shared both the leadership role of the major left Italian Party and the dramatic experience of a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Retracing their medical incidents, separated by 50 years of history, we show how a fatal medical disease has become neurosurgical and successfully cured thanks to the advances of neurosurgery, neuroradiology, and hospital organization. A neurologic disease that was disgraceful 50 years ago has lost any disquieting and embarrassing significance in the present time to the light of evolution of vascular neurosurgery. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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