27 year old death in hospital in Naples, parents against truth – Campania
Partial consultant, “victim of undiagnosed pathology”
(ANSA) – NAPLES, MARCH 22 – The parents of Rita Caccioppoli, the 27-year-old student who died last April 6 in a hospital in Naples, are asking for “truth and justice”. According to what emerged from the autopsy examination ordered by the Naples Public Prosecutor’s Office, the cause of death would be attributable to “a sudden illness” but now, on the basis of advice from their lawyer, the lawyer Amedeo Di Pietro, the reopening of the case comes with new advice presented in court.
According to the expert, Rita, who weighed just 49 kilograms when she died, the death would be attributable to a “heart failure with pericarditis and myocarditis….
“undiagnosed. A disease that can be cured which, according to the parents, the doctors have not noticed.
Until the date of her death, all the tests she had undergone had always given negative results. Nevertheless, although the young woman continued to eat and take vitamins regularly, the state of malaise persisted. She was unable to withhold food, and for this reason she, several times, she had been forced to seek medical attention. The first ailments began in November 2020. Doctors from a first hospital hypothesized Hoshimoto’s thyroiditis. In another important Neapolitan health facility, after an 18-day hospitalization during which she was once again subjected to routine tests, the diagnosis was stress depression.
However, a diagnosis that had never convinced the girl’s family members, who privately requested a consultation with the neurologist Gaetano D’Arienzo, who further excluded the presence of eating disorders, however prescribing antidepressants that forced her to sleep all day.
The day after the dramatic epilogue, the young woman’s family members went to the Ponticelli Police Station in Naples to file a complaint and ask the authorities to shed light on the tragic story. (HANDLE).
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