Naples, 2 March (LaPresse) – The challenge filed by lawyer Francesco Petrucci, representing the family of Domenico Caliendo, the two-year-old boy who died after a “burnt” heart transplant, has been accepted. The lawyer himself announced the news. ‘I have just come out of a meeting with the investigating magistrate who accepted the request,’ he said. ‘Livio Ugolini from Udine has been appointed as a replacement.’ Tomorrow, an autopsy will be performed on the child's body and a preliminary hearing will also be held, which is ‘essential to determine’ what happened in Bolzano. “We have appointed Professor Angelini, head of cardiac surgery at Bristol, as medical examiner.” Last Saturday, the solicitor requested the recusal of Mauro Rinaldi, full professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Turin and director of the cardiac surgery unit, from the team of experts appointed by the investigating magistrate. Petruzzi explained that the conditions for impartiality as provided for in Article 37 of the Code of Criminal Procedure do not exist because Rinaldi had “clearly expressed his position in the newspapers” and is “the author of a scientific publication produced with one of the doctors currently under investigation”.