Antonella Giuliano (22) started 2024 with the hope that her quality of life would improve this summer. An operation was planned for January 19th, during which – as he had been promised – some small reductions would be made cramps from which she had suffered since childhood on her left leg. However, it was a problem that I was determined to solve one day It had never caused him any physical limitations. “You simply bothered me,” he clarified in a dialogue with this medium. But this operation, which she was assured she would “do 100%,” led to a nightmare: when she woke up from anesthesia, she had lost her heart Tenderness from the waist down. Since, can’t walk.
The young woman’s routine throughout her youth, which included going out with friends, playing sports, and going to college, was a thing of the past alleged malpractice at the Hospital de Clínicas which is currently being investigated by the judiciary.
It all happened during one selective dorsal rhizotomy, Surgery to reduce spasticity in the legs. “They recommended me this operation to completely relieve me of the mild cramps in my left leg. They told me that it would be something very, very special and that it would keep me at 100%. I asked many times about the risks and they told me that there was nothing to worry about,” the young woman said in an interview with Infobae.
They had promised Antonella that the procedure would be carried out by “an eminence”, but in the end it was carried out by Dr. Alberto Yañez, who was working at the time of the operation I was retiredeven though the patient didn’t know it. When the young woman woke up after the procedure without feeling her limbs, he assured that “everything went well” and that the problem was that her body showed an unexpected reaction.
The truth was just becoming known 45 days laterwhen, after much insistence from his family, he managed to get an MRI done. The study was delayed because, as stated in the complaint later filed by her father, the head of the neurosurgery department at the Hospital de Clínicas did not request it, claiming that Yañez had not requested it.
It wasn’t until March 2nd that the diagnosis came: Antonella had one “Spinal process that was compressing his spinal cord“This means that after the operation, part of the spinal bone was under pressure, which caused various problems. Therefore, they had to undergo emergency surgery to relieve pressure on the spinal canal.”
“If they had done the study immediately and the decompression on time, my injury would not have been so serious,” says the young woman, recalling that she spent more than a month with the spinal cord anchored. Today, almost two years after the crime, Antonella still cannot move her legs, has no sensitivity to touch and cannot go to the toilet. “To this day, I do intermittent catheterization because I can’t urinate on my own,” he says.
The incident is being investigated by prosecutor Federico Tropea PCYF Prosecutor’s Office No. 15, who has initiated proceedings for culpable bodily harm, the main target of which is the doctor Alberto Yanezto the head of neurosurgery, who did not immediately order the MRI after the problems of the operation, and to the kinesiology department, which treated the patient before the operation and assured her that there was no risk.
“When that happened, Yañez just told me, ‘I can’t believe I’m ending my career like this,'” she remembers. According to the findings, the man and the main target died in a traffic accident in May InfobaeSo the case against the other two doctors continues.
According to the young woman’s father in the complaint, “the compression of the spinal cord during the operation caused Antonella to develop ischemia, i.e. The legal allegation also refers to a alleged manipulation of medical historywhere important dates and records of the hospital stay would have been changed.
The case was filed months after it began due to a “lack of evidence.” The family lawyer Ignacio Fernandez Camillosubsequently intervened and requested the review on the grounds that there were still outstanding technical elements and medical inconsistencies that had not yet been assessed.
On May 19th the Chamber Public Prosecutor’s Office for Criminal, Misdemeanor and Administrative Offenses of the Autonomous City of Buenos Airesby decision of the public prosecutor Sergio Martin Lapadulifted the previous closure and ordered new evidentiary measures. The prosecutor considered the closure to be premature, allowing a new expert report to be prepared based on the evidence of inconsistent medical reports on the cause and treatment of the neurological disease.
The focus of the criminal investigation now points to the possible responsibility of the doctors mentioned above. “In the immediate postoperative period, Antonella Giuliano exhibited a complete, flaccid, areflexic paraplegia with incontinence and emuntorial dystonia,” the complaint states in the court report.
On September 3, the case added a new chapter when the City Police conducted a raid Clinics Hospital. The operation was ordered by the Criminal Court of Violations and Misdemeanors No. 23 This included the seizure of Antonela’s full medical history, medical reports, care files and documents relating to her hospitalization between January and March 2024.
The public prosecutor’s office ordered the confiscation of the seized documents, while the investigation included checking the professional qualifications of the doctors involved and collecting new witness statements and reports.
The matter that involves professionals from the “José de San Martín” Clinical Hospital.remains open. The next legal measures include, among other things, a new interdisciplinary medical report and investigations into the decision-making and procedural chain Silvia Antonela Giuliano his recovery continues.
The 22-year-old girl is still suffering from the consequences of the alleged misconduct, which will be decided by the judiciary or not. She hardly feels anything when she is squeezed tightly and he couldn’t move his hip a little again until almost 24 months later.
“At the moment I don’t have a rehabilitation center. I train at home as best I can. The truth is, my family puts me second in everything, but to get out of there I need an intensive six-hour rehabilitation, at least to see if I can recover,” said Antonella Infobae.
“The way my body feels, I still don’t move, but I have regained a deep sensitivity. That is, when you give your hand, I don’t feel it, but when you squeeze my leg a little, yes.
Antonella also can’t go to the toilet on her own: “To this day I do intermittent catheterization because I can’t urinate on my own. The hospital doesn’t provide me with tubes either. They send me stomach tubes that aren’t meant for that and my father modifies them. We put them in alcohol and they’re super sterilized so I don’t get any infections or anything like that. And that’s how I urinate today. That means I urinate through tubes that are my old one “Mr. made it.”
The young woman’s father is dedicated to making exclusive wooden pieces and therefore made several artifacts that gradually help her get around.
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