The condition of Defence Minister
Guido Crosetto is "markedly improved" after he was admitted to
hospital with a minor but painful heart issue in Rome Tuesday
night, the ministry said Wednesday.
"Clinical examinations have confirmed that it was a new episode
of pericarditis that presented itself in a much more painful
form than the previous episode and, as then, without cardiac
implications," it said.
The minister, a leading member of Premier Giorgia Meloni's
right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, was taken to Rome's
San Carlo di Nancy hospital after feeling unwell during a
meeting of the Supreme Defence Council at the presidential
palace.
He was reported to have been suffering chest pains.
Crosetto was treated for a case of pericarditis at the same
hospital in February.
Pericarditis is an inflammation of the pericardium, the fibrous
sac surrounding the heart.
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