Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53899#.VNsFTizQrzE Author(s) Alberto Zanatta 1 , Fabio Zampieri 1 , Maurizio Rippa Bonati 1 , Guido Liessi 2 , Cesare Barbieri 3 , Scott Bolton 4 , Cristina Basso 1 , Gaetano Thiene 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy . 2 C.M.S.R. Veneto Medica, Vicenza, Italy . 3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padua, Padua, Italy . 4 Space Science and Engineering Division, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, USA . ABSTRACT Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) complained of several disorders during his life, the most important of which were chronic arthritic pains and bilateral blindness. These symptoms might be results from an immune rheumatic disease, namely reactive arthritis (urethritis, uveitis, arthritis), when Galileo started suffering with an epi...
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