The Truth About Journalist Andrea Purgatori's Death to be Revealed Post-Summer

The truth about the death of journalist Andrea Purgatori could arrive after the summer. The investigating judge in Rome, as part of the investigation initiated by the Prosecutor's Office which sees four doctors under investigation for manslaughter, has commissioned a comprehensive expert report to ascertain what caused the death of the host of the TV show Atlantide. As part of the evidentiary incident, which had been requested in recent weeks by the public prosecutors, the judge also asked the appointed specialists to clarify the presence of metastases and to try to determine how and when the cardiac infection began. The experts now have ninety days to complete the checks: the hearing has been postponed to September 26. In the register of the accused are listed the radiologist Gianfranco Gualdi, his assistant Claudio Di Biasi and Dr. Maria Chiara Colaiacomo, both belonging to his team, and the cardiologist Guido Laudani, who treated Purgatori. The unrepeatable investigative act had been requested by the capital's Prosecutor's Office in recent weeks in light of a consultation that had been ordered to try to clarify the clinical picture of the journalist who died at 70 years old. The request document cites the conclusions of the consultation. 'In summary', the assessment 'shows that the journalist, although suffering from metastatic lung cancer, died from the consequences of an infective endocarditis that induced widespread systemic embolization in the patient. This pathology - it reads - was not identified in time to be able to start timely treatment, and precisely in relation to its omitted or in any case late diagnosis' the cardiologist was registered. The document also states that the consultants appointed by the prosecutor Giorgio Orano have highlighted 'serious criticisms in the reporting of the MRI on the brain on May 8, 2023, already subject to censure by the relatives of the journalist'. In the report, 'metastases of the primary tumor (as mentioned, in the lung) were diagnosed "without a doubt", whose presence - states the deputy prosecutor - was instead excluded by the autopsy and histological examinations. Furthermore, the report did not indicate the possibility that the brain lesions highlighted by the MRI had an ischemic nature'. In light of this last aspect, the Prosecutor's Office proceeded to register Dr. Colaiacomo who, 'despite not having had direct contact with the patient, with the relatives - assisted by lawyers Michele and Alessandro Gentiloni Silveri - and with other doctors, is still the signatory of the report'. The prosecutor states that it is 'necessary to emphasize that the technical consultants have expressly left the final determinations on the possible responsibility of the signatories of the report to the technical evaluation of a specialist neuroradiologist. On the evaluation of the course, both diagnostic and therapeutic, 'even in terms of identifying the responsibilities of the healthcare professionals and the causal link, would benefit from specialized competencies in neurology, cardiology, and infectious disease: they appear - the Prosecutor's Office concludes in the request for evidentiary incident -, in fact, essential to validate the framework of technical checks on the clinical course of Purgatori and on the ascertainment of the causes of death'.