With tensions, a lawsuit against the pediatric cardiologist professor Angeliki Karatzas, but also with an intense confrontation between the doctor and the defense regarding the weight of Georgina’s heart, today’s trial before the MOD where Rula Pispirigou is on trial was also marked.

Mr. Kougias filed a lawsuit against Ms. Karatza, who had testified before Easter and today came to court to be examined by the defense, saying that she is an “unreliable witness”.

The reason for the lawsuit was that the doctor had reported to the investigator that the communication with Karamandanios had taken place after the contraction suffered by the little girl in April 2021, while in court she clarified that the communication was before Georgina suffered the episode. In this way, the professor essentially confirmed what the doctors of Karamnandaneios testified about this issue.

“I am suing for perjury and I wish the autoforos process could be started because this woman is trying to mislead by painting my client as guilty. We request the transfer of the records to the prosecutorsaid Mr. Kougias about the doctor. The witness had examined Georgina before her admission to Karamandanio, and testified with certainty in court that there was no indication of a heart problem.

During the examination of Mrs. Karatza, Mr. Kougias, sticking to the basic claim of the accused that the child had a heart problem which was not diagnosed, asked the professor of pediatric cardiology, Angeliki Karatza, about the weight of the child’s heart.

The witness said that weight is not important in Medicine, with Mr. Kouya stating that it seems that Emeritus Professor of Forensics and Toxicology Dimitris Psaroulis, whom, as the defense counsel said, he has invited to testify in court, seems to have a different opinion.

As Mr. Kougias said, “normal weight according to Mr. Psaroulis is 125 grams. With a heart weighing 47 grams, the child was a potential candidate to die. Is what Professor Psaroulis says, whom I will call to court, right?”

Witness: The child had normal heart function, normal physiological dimensions and when she went to Onassios her heart was examined and found to be normal.

Then Mr. Kougias, presenting a report by the British medical examiner Bernard Henry Knight, emphasized that he states that the heart has a greater weight in the dead, meaning that the child’s heart was lighter while Georgina was alive. “Georgina’s heart was a time bomb,” said the defense attorney, with the witness replying that Georgina’s heart was functioning normally and a heart of normal size.

During the question-and-answer session, the prosecutor intervened at one point when the discussion was about troponin readings and whether the values ​​could indicate a problem.

Prosecutor: He had a pre-abortion troponin taken when he was admitted to the hospital and it was zero.

Witness: More than enough! With zero troponin just a few days before the arrest and a normal electrocardiogram, it is clear that we do not have myocarditis.

At another point in the long examination, when the defense attorney referred to another test for measuring creatine kinase, the witness reacted by saying that it is a third-world test. The advocate raised his voice saying that “we are third world! This is how these poor parents were treated! Don’t talk about third world again! The specific doctors, whom you call third world, considered it important and the answer came that instead of 18, it is 30”. Then he asked the witness:

Kugias: Is this indication related to the heart?

Witness: No.

Mrs. Karatza also referred to the therapeutic hypothermia in which, as testified by Mr. Andreas Iliadis, Georgina entered when she was transferred to the ICU of Rio. As the witness mentioned, defending the scientific approach made by Mr. Iliadis to the child, “if we don’t do hypothermia and sedation in such cases then we are bad doctors. When someone has a circulatory disorder, microthrombi form and we have a problem.”