Health ministry inspectors said
Wednesday the death of a woman after IVF was due to staff
"underestimating significant risk factors".
These were "obesity, hypertension, diabetes and heart
disease," the inspectors said.
Arianna Acrivoulis, 38, died June 10 at a hospital in the
southern town of Conversano after an assisted fertility
treatment involving a fine-needle follicle aspiration.
Once aspired, the eggs in the follicles are fertilized in
vitro (IVF), then implanted back into the woman's body in hopes
at least one will take hold and become a viable fetus.
Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin sent a task force to the
hospital to look into Acrivoulis' untimely death the following
day.
Carabinieri police seized the patient's clinical file and
Bari prosecutors placed two doctors under investigation, sources
said at the time.
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