A new episode of pericarditis, three months after the previous one, for the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, forced yesterday evening to leave the Supreme Defense Council at the Quirinale in an ambulance and reach San Carlo di Nancy, the same hospital that he had already taken him into care in February again due to inflammation of the pericardium, the sac-shaped membrane that lines the heart.
It’s almost noon when the first bulletin arrives. The health conditions are described as “good” and “clearly improving”, after a night spent “peacefully”, always monitored in the coronary unit of the hospital. The minister will remain in hospital for a few more days, “only for precautionary reasons” and “to ensure a complete and safe recovery”, says the Defense. He will be discharged at the end of the week.
The clinical tests therefore confirmed the new episode of pericarditis which this time presented itself in a “much more painful” form than the previous episode. But even in this case, the doctors assure, there were no “cardiac implications”.
ANSA Agency Crosetto hospitalized at San Carlo di Nancy in Rome – News – Ansa.it The minister left the Supreme Defense Council early. The facility is the same where he was hospitalized in February for pericarditis (ANSA)“After the acute phase of pain has passed, pericarditis is treated like a normal infection, with anti-inflammatory therapy”, explains the head of Cardiac Surgery at San Carlo di Nancy, Professor Giuseppe Speziale. In the past, before February 13th, Crosetto had already had some heart problems, with a hospitalization dating back to 2013.
“We are optimistic”, reassures the head doctor again in front of the hospital gates on the Aurelia. A little rest and then he will be able to resume his commitments shortly, the doctor then adds.
Those scheduled for today – such as question time in the Chamber – and for tomorrow in the meantime have been cancelled. But in the hospital, in the early morning – after a night spent calmly and “working as usual” – the minister still had “a meeting with his closest collaborators for the daily briefing on the evolution of the safety framework”, they say know from the Defense.
Crosetto himself then takes care of reassuring the situation, thanking “all the people, friends, known or unknown” who in the last few hours have sent him “messages of friendship, closeness and affection”. Among these, dozens of colleagues from all political parties, starting with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who had already posted a “Forza Guido” on X yesterday evening.
“You give me good news” commented Matteo Salvini after learning the outcome of the medical bulletin.
“Super Guido, you are a rock, we are waiting for you very soon with us!”, is the wish that comes from the Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini.
Video Quiet night in hospital for Minister Crosetto
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