Avellino Hospital Agrees to €45,000 Settlement for Unnecessary Open-Heart Surgery

The Moscati Hospital in Avellino has agreed to a compensation of 45,000 euros to avoid judicial condemnation regarding a case of unnecessary open-heart surgery on a 50-year-old man from Naples. The Studio Associati Maior, which assisted the patient, confirmed that he obtained the compensation for a surgery deemed unnecessary at the Moscati Hospital in Avellino. The man, originally from Naples, was transferred to Moscati after a road accident that occurred in the city of Naples, after being initially transported to the San Paolo Hospital in Naples. Here, the medical staff confirmed the diagnosis of a supposed severe aortic dissection and decided to operate on the patient immediately. However, the tests performed were incomplete, and the sternotomy procedure proved to be entirely unnecessary. Following an expert evaluation ordered by the judge, it emerged that the surgery should not have been performed. Indeed, further diagnostic tests, which the staff at Moscati omitted, would have allowed to detect that the patient did not have an aortic dissection and, therefore, should not have been operated on. Before the judge's consultants deposited the final report, the hospital facility decided to resolve the dispute by proposing a compensation of about 45,000 euros, a sum that the damaged patient accepted. The Studio Associati Maior, composed of the lawyers Michele Francesco Sorrentino, Pierlorenzo Catalano, and Filippo Castaldo, together with the medical-legal expert Marcello Lorello, confirmed the definition of the agreement.