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The death of the Argentine Diego Armando Maradona, the best footballer in history for many fans in the world, generated a wave of tributes around the planet, but also an investigation to find out the causes of his death, which occurred on September 25 at his home in Tigre.
This Tuesday the result of the autopsy of the former soccer player, who died at age 60, was released. Toxicological studies were carried out.
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Maradona’s blood and urine tests were negative for alcohol and narcotics. However, the presence of “venlafaxine, quetiapine, levetiracetam and naltrexone” was found, all psychotropic drugs.
Some of the elements they found in the samples produce arrhythmia, something that is now entering the investigation. Maradona had a chronic heart disease and now they are trying to establish if the consumption of these psychotropic drugs was suitable for a patient in the condition in which the ’10’ was.
“It is as important what appeared as what did not emerge from these laboratory tests, which at first glance confirm that Maradona was given psychotropic drugs, but no medication for his heart disease,” said one of the judicial investigators in the case, cited by the newspaper La Nación.
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The four drugs are part of a treatment formulated by the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov. This combination is used to treat patients with alcohol addiction, depressive symptoms, and eventually depression.
However, none of these medications is to combat Maradona’s heart disease, which could complicate both Cosachov and doctor Leopoldo Luque, who operated on Maradona for a subdural hematoma shortly before his death.
At the autopsy, Maradona’s heart was also studied, in which a “dilated cardiomyopathy” was detected. The organ weighed 503 grams, almost twice the size of a healthy heart.
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With the result of the autopsy, now the prosecutors studying Maradona’s case plan to convene a medical board to study whether the treatment was adequate and the death of the former soccer player could be avoided.
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With the Nation (Argentina-GDA)
