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“Acute lung edema secondary to exacerbated chronic heart failure” was the preliminary conclusion of the autopsy carried out on Diego Armando Maradona, revealed by the Argentine authorities.
The report also speaks of a “dilated cardiomyopathy” which together ended up causing the death of one of the best footballers in history.
To understand this outcome, we must begin by saying that the footballer had some risk factors that They demanded greater strength from their hearts to guarantee the irradiation of blood to the whole body, as explained by cardiologist Gabriel Robledo Kaiser, director of the Bogotá Heart Center.
Among these factors may be obesity, a possible high blood pressure, potential changes in the diameter of the arteries and even alcohol consumption.
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“These elements together or separately cause the cardiac cells to hypertrophy (increase in size), but they also lead the organ to be less efficient,” says Robledo, who adds that this configures heart failure.
This condition is characterized by lower and lower ejection fractions (amounts of blood pumped by the heart), which produces a stagnation in the circulation and translates into edema in the extremities, difficulty breathing with moderate efforts, a feeling of suffocation and in extreme cases severe respiratory distress due to puddling of the lung.
In these cases, the disease must be managed by giving greater strength to the heart with medications, in addition to reducing risk factors and permanently controlling the patient, says Robledo.
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However, when this is not done effectively or when other components are added, the situation worsens and can lead to outcomes such as those noted in Maradona’s death report: exacerbated heart failure.
In Robledo’s words, Other factors were added, such as the antecedent of intracranial involvement, the surgery they did two weeks ago and the postoperative period, that could have come together to force the heart in an extreme way and lead it to collapse, to the point that it no longer worked. And in that sense, the entire circulation was affected and this in vital organs such as the lung can be lethal.
Hence, the report also speaks of acute pulmonary edema.
In summary, according to the cardiologist, a heart at the limit and extremely forced stops working acutely – there could be a heart attack – and generate consequences such as cardiorespiratory arrest, which led to Maradona’s death.
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Robledo insists that these are data extracted from the preliminary report and does not take into account the clinical history or direct data.
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