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New analyzes carried out by experts from the Argentine Forensic Police on blood and urine from Diego Armando Maradona, who passed away on November 25, excluding the presence of alcohol or drugs, but highlighted the important ones instead traces of psychotropic drugs. The Telam news agency writes it today. The body specifies that the drugs detected during the toxicological examination are “venlafaxine, quetiapine, levetiracetam and naltrexone”, and that some of these, according to experts, are “Arrhythmogens”, that is, capable of producing arrhythmias.
Therefore, the Argentine judiciary must to verify if these drugs were suitable for a patient with a chronic heart disease such as Maradona suffered. At first glance, said a member of the investigative team working on the open investigation after the death of Maradona“It is surprising that he has already been given psychotropic drugs and none related to his heart disease.”
Medical sources also explained to Télam that venlafaxine is an antidepressant drug for the treatment of anxiety disorders; Quetiapine is an antipsychotic for severe depression and some addictions; Levetiracetam is an antiepileptic drug that acts on the central nervous system and can cause drowsiness and impaired responsiveness. Finally, naltrexone blocks the effect of opioids and is used to prevent alcohol withdrawal. Based on these results, which are added to those of the autopsy in early December, the idea of the three prosecutors conducting the investigations (Laura Capra, Cosme Iribarren and Patricio Ferrari) is to convene an interdisciplinary medical commission to analyze the case and judge whether death was preventable, if there was negligence, and if any of the professionals involved, the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, may be liable. The autopsy had established that Maradona died of “acute lung edema linked to acute chronic heart failure” and “dilated cardiomyopathy.”
Last Updated: Wednesday 23 December 2020 14:38
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