Maradona autopsy: no alcohol or drugs, but …

The results of the autopsy show important news about the causes of the death of Diego Armando Maradona. The analyzes started on December 2, according to the Telam news agency, excluded the presence of alcohol or drugs in the Argentine’s blood and urine. This is the first important result of the toxicological analyzes and instrumental tests that, however, highlighted the “excessive presence of psychotropic drugs” as well as a “devastating” clinical picture. At the time of death, according to laboratory results, “Maradona had acute lung edema and severe chronic heart failure, as well as dilated cardiomyopathy, cirrhotic liver disease and, in the lungs, rupture of the alveolar septa and finally acute necrosis.” in the kidney area “.

Psychotropic drugs

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Swabs, blood tests, urinalysis, liver studies, and tissue tests were carried out on Diez’s body. From the observation of the heart it was found that it weighed approximately twice its normal weight, or 503 grams, a sign of obvious heart problems. But the autopsy also revealed “traces of psychiatric drugs and antidepressants in abundance.” The result of the analyzes can, therefore, open a glance at the causes of death, also because – one of the experts appointed by the magistrates told the Telam agency – “the laboratory data confirm that Maradona has taken drugs that cause arrhythmias without carrying out at the same time adequate treatment for his heart problems. He was not taking any heart medication and it is a fact that during his hospitalization they did not prescribe tests to keep his complicated heart disease at bay. ”

The investigations

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“All the sons of f … a who were waiting for the results of the autopsy to say that my father was a drug addict. I’m not a doctor, but I saw him swollen, with a robotic voice. I saw it, it was happening, but they called me crazy ”, Diez’s second daughter, Gianinna, took the opportunity to shoot another excavation at her father’s neurosurgeon, Leopoldo Luque, in turn registered in the register of suspects together. to the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov. In light of the results that emerged from the autopsy, the position of the two specialists could be complicated, since the three prosecutors in charge of the investigation intend to clearly see the hypothesis that Diez’s death was caused by inexperience and negligence. To understand more about a suspicion reinforced by recent events, prosecutors Capra, Iribarren and Ferrari have ordered the advice of an ad hoc medical commission to assess any responsibility on the part of those who were in charge of the health of the Pibe de Oro.