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10 December 2018Shown in the investigation for the death of former Fiorentina captain Davide Astori. The Florence prosecutor's office after opening an investigation, this morning sent two notices of guarantee to two doctors of public structures, one of Florence, the other of Cagliari, who would have signed the footballer's fitness for sporting activities. The two professionals would be investigated for manslaughter.

On 4 March this year Astori was found dead in a hotel in Udine that hosted Fiorentina before the match against Udinese on the 27th Serie A round. The autopsy results lead to the conclusion that the player is died of sudden cardiac death following ventricular fibrillation due to a silent arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.

Two appraisals were carried out, one ordered by the judiciary of the Friulian city, according to which the player would have suffered from an arrhythmogenic right ventricle cardiomyopathy, the other from the Florentine one after the passage of the investigation in the Tuscan capital. The results of this last consultancy, carried out by Professor Domenico Corrado of the University of Padua, among the leading experts on the subject of sudden death due to cardiac problems, would have led to the decision to register the two doctors in the register of suspects and then recipients of the warranty notices that you learned today.

Meanwhile, in today's edition the Nation, referring to the Florentine expert's report, reports that two stressed electrocardiograms performed on the player in July 2016 and in the same month of 2017 to obtain sports fitness, at the Florentine hospital's sports medicine center of Careggi, they would have shown cardiac anomalies. In particular, we always read on La Nazione, in the report of 2017 an extrasystole with two morphologies emerged, an indication that the heart of the player should have been subjected to more detailed investigations. Something that would not have happened otherwise, always reports the newspaper, to what is foreseen by the cardiological protocols for the judgment of sports fitness.

Fiorentina: we await the development of investigations
The president of Acf Fiorentina, Mario Cognigni, commented, through a note, the news of the two doctors investigated for the death of the former captain of the violet team: "La Fiorentina has taken note of what emerged today on various press organs in this regard to the tragedy of Davide Astori. The Viola Club, always close to the family of Davide, considers it a duty to maintain a strict silence in respect of the memory of our Captain and his loved ones, pending further development of the ongoing investigations ".
According to what has been learned, the two doctors under investigation belong to public health facilities that have certified Astori's fitness for sports.

The expert Domenico Corrado: the investigations made were insufficient
"The investigations carried out on Davide Astori were 'insufficient' to find the disease that then caused his death, a silent pathology not easy to identify, I do not say that they were wrong, I can only say that the two episodes of arrhythmias recorded in the past could lead to further investigations as required by the guidelines ". This is how Domenico Corrado, a lecturer at the University of Padua and an expert appointed by the prosecutor's office of Florence in the inquiry into the death of Davide Astori