Leopoldo Luque admitted that Diego Maradona 'had a heart with some sequels', but said it was 'not alarming'

11/30/2020 12:57 PM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 11/30/2020 1:02 PM

After presenting himself spontaneously at the San Isidro prosecutor's office and not being able to testify - he is not yet charged - neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, one of the last doctors who treated Diego Maradona, again referred to the health presented by the Argentine star and acknowledged that "

", although he said that "it was not alarming".

"Diego was very well, his heart had some sequelae, but the surgery could be performed. Two months before he had had an echocardiogram. They always tried to see if there was something, but the cardiological issues were typical of his antecedents, it was not nothing alarming enough to take a measure during the discharge, "said Luque, at the center of the scene after Maradona's death.

The doctor insisted that Diego was discharged after being operated on for edema in the brain and that he was "sad and abstinent."

"I saw him on Thursday, where we had that encounter; then I saw him on Friday to remove the stitches and then I saw him on Sunday because they told me he was sad, but as a friend, because I am not a specialist in the area," he clarified in statements to

The doctor noted that at this stage of the treatment the objectives sought were "achieved."

And he explained: "The objectives were achieved, which were for Diego not to take, to accommodate the medication, that was what the family was looking for."

One of the aspects that Luque has been criticized for was the lack of medical personnel and equipment to treat Maradona at his home in the private neighborhood of San Andrés.

The neurosurgeon rejected the accusations and denied that it was necessary to have a defibrillator at home.

"Diego was a person to whom it could happen sooner or later. Now, did he have criteria to have an ambulance at the door and a defibrillator? No. If that had been the case, the cardiologist would not have let him leave the clinic", explained.

News in development.

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