The surgeon who operated on Camilla, who died at 18 after the vaccine: ‘Something never seen before, it’s not normal’
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The parents of the 18-year-old who died: “She had no disease.” The chief physician who operated on her: “Extremely severe thrombosis”JUNE 14, 2021
On Tuesday the prosecutor of Genoa, which coordinates the investigations of the Nas carabinieri, will instruct the Pavia coroner Luca Tajana to perform the autopsy on the body of Camilla Canepa, the eighteen year old who died after the vaccine. The girl allegedly suffered from chronic platelet deficiency, a “familial autoimmune thrombocytopenia”. This was learned by the investigators from the first reports of the doctors. But the girl’s family, assisted by the lawyer Angelo Paone, is firm on this point. “Camilla had no disease,” explains the lawyer, reporting the position of the parents: the investigators will not be able to ignore.
To operate Camilla al San Martino was Gianluigi Zona, director of the neurosurgical and neurotraumatological clinic of the Polyclinic: “I had never seen a brain reduced in those conditions by such an extensive and severe thrombosis,” he admits. Camilla arrived at the Polyclinic at 5 and six minutes last Sunday, transferred from the Lavagna hospital where she had undergone two CT scans: discharged after the first one who had not highlighted the situation of the thrombosis in progress, immediately transferred after the second when the situation was already compromised. To realize what was happening, would the first CT scan done in Lavagna have been enough?
«Thinking in retrospect everything is easy and everyone is world champion, the last doctor who comes to visit a patient is always the most intelligent – he replies -. A CT scan does not directly evidence a thrombosis even if there are very indirect signs. They are early signs and a very expert eye is needed to grasp them, but they can be grasped before the presence of blood ”. When the blood then appears, as the second CT scan done in Lavagna showed, the thrombosis is evident but it can be late. «At that point we speak of hemorrhagic infarction: the blood does not flow and is transferred into the brain. I cannot judge what could have already been grasped in the first Tac: it never made it to San Martino. Normally, if there are no clues that lead to the hypothesis of something serious in progress, no doctor in the emergency room prescribes a CT scan with contrast or other tests ». Thus we arrive at 11.58 pm on Saturday 5 June, the new race to the Lavagna hospital and the transfer to Genoa. At San Martino, the neurosurgeon on duty that night is Alessandro d’Andrea who also calls his head physician: they are side by side at the operating table. “We opted for a decompression craniotomy, the skull opened to relieve internal pressure.”The blood could not drain and was soaking the brain. «All the venous sinuses were blocked by thrombus, a scenario that I had never seen in many years of this profession. You have to imagine the venous sinus as the river in the center of a valley in which several streams converge. If a dam is built at the center of the watercourse, the river swells and at that point the tributaries are unable to discharge, with the result that the upstream pressure rises ». Zona speaks out of the teeth: “I am not a virologist or an epidemiologist or a coroner but, in the face of the picture I saw in that girl’s head, it is clear that we are dealing with something not normal.”
