Management of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in Two Important Italian Political Leaders: A Paradigm of Ethical and Technological Evolution of Neurosurgery During the Past Half-Century

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• 作者：Pierluigi Longatti¹ ; Ermanno Giombelli² ; Giacomo Pavesi³ ; Alessandro Carteri¹ ; Alberto Feletti³ ; ^{alberto.feletti@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Cerebral aneurysm ; History of neurosurgery ; Italian ; Neurosurgery evolution ; Political leaders ; SAH
• 刊名：World Neurosurgery
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：92
• 期：Complete
• 页码：559-564
• 全文大小：1335 K

文摘

For 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.