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As part of the investigation into manslaughter launched by the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office, the timetable for medical-legal examinations was set yesterday to clarify the causes of the journalist’s death Andrew Purgatori. The CT scan will be performed on Tuesday, also to determine the presence or absence of metastases or traces of ischemic events in the brain. However, on Wednesday the autopsy will be performed at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic. The two doctors examined – Professor Gianfranco Gualdi, Head of Radiology at the Pio XI Clinic, and Dr. Claudio di Biasi, a member of his team – emphasize through their lawyer that the diagnosis and the prepared therapy were correct.
Andrea Purgatori, Cancer and Ischemia: What Doesn’t Matter in Death. CT scan on Tuesday, autopsy on Wednesday
Andrea Purgatori, what did he die of?
From 1981 Gualdi worked as a radiologist at the Vatican and from 1977 to 2000 he was also responsible for the radio diagnostics service of Roma Calcio. “We respect the pain of the family and withdraw from the media process,” commented lawyer Fabio Lattanzi. “We hope the uproar subsides and we are confident that the technical investigations will prove the accuracy of their work.”
THE HISTORY
The journalist, who died on July 19, was diagnosed with lung cancer with brain metastases in early May by Professor Gualdi, a luminary also known as the radiologist of the Popes, who decided to have him undergo high-dose radiation therapy to the brain. But in the complaint filed with the public prosecutor by the journalist’s family members – supported by lawyers Michele and Alessandro Gentiloni Silveri – Gualdi’s diagnosis does not match the diagnosis made in June by Alessandro Bozzao, professor of neuroradiology at La Sapienza and head of the Sant’Andrea department. The CT scan that was subsequently carried out at the Villa Margherita Clinic was in fact unable to show any brain metastases, only traces of cerebral ischemia. An image also confirmed by another MRI in a different structure. There was also a dispute between Gualdi and Bozzao. In this context, the hypothesis would arise that the cause of Purgatori’s death, also weakened by radiation therapy, could have been a heart infection: septic pericarditis.
To shed light on all this, the prosecutors asked their advisers (doctors Luigi Tonino Marsella, Alessandro Mauriello and Michele Treglia) to indicate “the time of death, the cause of death, the circumstances by which it was ascertained and any other useful circumstances”. They have 60 days to declare whether “imprudence and negligence have been committed and who is responsible for them”. Doctors must use the CT scan, which will be carried out on Tuesday, to verify whether there were indeed metastases in the brain and whether Purgatori’s death was due to the side effects of radiation therapy in the brain. In short, it must be determined whether there is a causal connection between the therapy carried out due to a possible misdiagnosis and the death of the journalist.
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