Astori medic lost appeal against manslaughter ruling

The medic who passed Fiorentina captain Davide Astori fit to play and did not recognise the heart condition that killed him has seen his one-year prison sentence confirmed for manslaughter.

The 31-year-old player went to sleep at the team hotel in Udine the night before a Serie A match in March 2018 and never woke up.

An autopsy showed that he died from a tachyarrhythmia, caused by a heart defect that had not been detected during his many medical tests as a professional football player.

Doctor who passed Astori fit is found guilty again

Giorgio Galanti was the head of the sports medicine department at the Careggi Hospital in Florence when he cleared Astori to play in the summer of 2017, just seven months before the defender’s death.

The original court case in April 2021 found Galanti guilty of manslaughter for not performing extra examinations when seeing the results of the stress test.

He appealed and that was rejected today, with the judge confirming the original result of the trial.