Overview
- With parental consent, clinicians adopted a comfort-focused plan after nearly two months on life support, and the family's lawyer emphasized it is not euthanasia.
- A visiting review team from four Italian cardiac centers determined a repeat operation is not medically indicated, effectively ending hopes for re-transplantation.
- The original donor heart was reportedly exposed to much colder dry ice during transport instead of standard refrigeration, severely damaging the organ before it was implanted.
- The child has remained on ECMO in a prolonged coma since late December, and his condition is described by doctors as very critical.
- Naples prosecutors are investigating six members of the transport and transplant teams and have seized the cooling container, and the parents have filed a complaint that could expand the probe.