Longatti Pierluigi, Giombelli Ermanno, Pavesi Giacomo, Carteri Alessandro, Feletti Alberto
Department of Neurosurgery, Treviso Hospital - University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Department of Special Surgeries, Unit of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy.
World Neurosurg. 2016 Aug;92:559-564. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2015.12.089. Epub 2016 Jan 14.
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.
一件奇特而惊人的巧合是，意大利共产党（成立于1921年，曾是西方国家最大的共产党）的7位最具影响力的领导人中有5位曾患脑中风。脑血管疾病也曾折磨过斯大林、列宁以及多位美国总统。我们讲述两位重要的意大利政治领导人的故事，他们既在意大利主要左翼政党中担任领导角色，又都经历了蛛网膜下腔出血这一戏剧性事件。回顾他们相隔50年历史的医疗事件，我们展示了一种致命的疾病如何借助神经外科、神经放射学和医院组织的进步，成为可通过神经外科手术成功治愈的疾病。一种在50年前令人耻辱的神经系统疾病，在血管神经外科的发展之下，如今已失去了任何令人不安和尴尬的意味。
