The head of the gerontology department of the Moscow State University of Medicine and Science at Moscow State University said that the cause of death of Vladimir Lenin was a hemorrhage from neurosyphilis in the quadrigemina, a region of the brain that contains the centers of vision and hearing. Gazeta.Ru. MV Lomonosov Valery Novoselov.
The researcher said that he managed to get acquainted with an uncensored diary of interested doctors of Lenin, kept in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, in the last two years of the life of the founder of the USSR. According to the conclusion of the experts, the doctor says that the basis of the disease is widespread atherosclerosis due to the “premature wear” of the vessels. The immediate cause of death was a hemorrhage in the pia mater in the quadrigemina region.
Novoselov says that the cause of the bleeding is neurosyphilis. According to the doctor, it arose in the Samara period of Lenin’s life (from 1889 to 1893). The researcher points out that Lenin was given the Wasserman reaction, which determined the presence of a pale spirochete, the causative agent of syphilis. Preparations of bismuth, iodine, mercury, given to the leader of the Bolsheviks, were used at that time only to treat this disease. The condition of the vessels revealed at autopsy – similar to cords – is much more common in neurosyphilis than in arteriosclerosis.
At the same time, Fyodor Gauthier, the personal doctor of the Lenin family, did not sign the result. Novoselov explains that the doctor does not agree on what causes the rupture of the veins.
Source: Ferra
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