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The two doctors under investigation will appoint a biased expert, there is also a radiology luminary, for the alleged manslaughter of Andrea Purgatori, the journalist who died after undergoing very heavy treatment for some brain metastases from a primary lung tumor. Metastases that, according to a later diagnosis by a Sapienza specialist, would never have occurred. In fact, for the author of Atlantis, according to subsequent reports alone, some ischemia would have been fatal.
The investigations
The autopsy of Purgatori’s body will be carried out next week at Tor Vergata Polyclinic using a CT scan which must confirm the presence of brain tumor masses but is unlikely to provide a conclusive impression. For this reason, the prosecutors could also order a super-report, entrusted to non-Roman doctors, probably at the request of family members, to ensure absolute impartiality. Meanwhile, the Nas military, on behalf of the adjunct Sergio Colaiocco and the prosecutor Giorgio Orano, who is coordinating the file, have confiscated all the medical files in the various facilities where Purgatori was treated or hospitalized and where he allegedly also contracted an infection: La Pio XI, where the diagnosis was made, but also Villa Margherita, the clinic where he was hospitalized when he began to feel the first problems and where he got a completely different answer on brain resonance received as the first in which the presence of metastases was denied.
The history
According to the complaint of family members, supported by lawyers Michele and Alessandro Gentiloni Silverj, on April 24 the conductor of Atlantis was subjected to an examination at Villa Margherita due to fatigue. On the basis of diagnostic tests and a lung biopsy, Purgatori turns to Pius XI. and received the dramatic diagnosis at the beginning of May: a primary lung tumor with diffuse brain metastases. The journalist therefore undergoes severe radiation therapy. His condition remains stable until mid-May, Purgatori continues to work and record an episode of the Atlantis broadcast. A few days later, however, problems begin: he is confused and increasingly tired. Instead, Pius XI informed him. reported that the metastases had decreased significantly.
The denial
But the journalist’s physical conditions are becoming increasingly serious. In June the situation became so critical that Purgatori returned to Villa Margherita. And here the doctors dispute the diagnosis of Pius XI: In the CT scan they find no metastases in the brain, only traces of ischemia.
A few days later, a brain magnetic resonance imaging performed by neuroradiologist Alessandro Bozzao, Associate Professor of Sapienza, ruled out the presence of metastases. Bozzao repeats the analysis a second time, comparing it to that of Pius XI. and comes to the conclusion that there have never been metastases. Purgatori returns home, but on July 8 the situation worsens. He was taken to the Umberto I Polyclinic, where he died on July 19. Faced with these contradictory diagnoses and a situation that suddenly came to a head, the journalist’s three children, Edoardo, Ludovico and Victoria, decided to contact Studio Gentiloni Silverj and file a complaint with the public prosecutor’s office in order to start an investigation.
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