12/23/2020 10:16 AM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 12/23/2020 10:17 AM
The investigation into the death of Diego Armando Maradona (60) has a key instance ahead of it, which will be the formation of a medical board made up of several specialists who will determine if those in charge of the health of the Diez did everything medically possible or failed in their Attention.
The toxicological and histopathological report released by the team of prosecutors revealed a highly complex clinical scenario.
In addition, he confirmed that he had not consumed alcohol or illegal drugs prior to his death, according to toxicological studies that did detect the presence of psychotropic drugs.
For its part, the histopathological study showed that Diego suffered from
six conditions
: cirrhosis, acute tubular necrosis (kidney disorder), focal glomerulosclerosis (kidney failure), atherosclerosis (accumulation of fat and cholesterol in the arteries), ischemic heart disease (atherosclerosis of coronary arteries). ) and arterial hyperplasia in the sinoatrial node (heart disease).
"It is as important what appeared as what did not emerge from these laboratory tests, which at a glance confirm that Maradona was given psychotropic drugs but
no medication for his heart disease,
" said one of the researchers.
The analyzes that the experts of the Scientific Police made on the blood and urine of the former soccer player and that they delivered on Tuesday night to the San Isidro team of prosecutors that are investigating the circumstances of the death of "10", yielded negative results in alcohol and narcotics, but positive in "venlafaxine, quetiapine, levetiracetam and naltrexone".
Research sources indicated to
Télam
that
some of the psychotropic drugs found are "arrhythmogenic"
, that is to say that they produce arrhythmia, something that now experts and prosecutors must analyze to see if they were suitable for a patient with a chronic heart disease like the one he suffered the former coach of Gymnastics and Fencing La Plata.
Venlafaxine is an antidepressant drug used to treat anxiety disorders;
Quetiapine is an antispychotic also used for severe depression and some addictions;
and levetiracetam is an antiepileptic drug that acts on the central nervous system and can cause drowsiness and a decreased ability to react.
Naltrexone blocks the effect of opioid medications and is used to prevent alcohol withdrawal.
These are the results of the complementary studies to the autopsy that began on December 2 in the laboratories of the Superintendency of Scientific Police in La Plata.
The playroom where Diego Maradona died, in the San Andrés de Tigre neighborhood.
There blood, urine and nasal swab samples were analyzed for toxicology, but histopathological studies were also carried out, which are those that microscopically analyze the organs and tissues, including Maradona's heart, which was completely extracted and, According to what the forensic doctors observed, he suffered from "dilated cardiomyopathy" and weighed 503 grams, about twice that of a normal person.
With all these results, the idea of the three prosecutors who sign the case, Laura Capra, Cosme Iribarren and Patricio Ferrari, is to convene an interdisciplinary "Medical Board" to thoroughly analyze the case and be able to sentence whether death was avoidable, if there was malpractice and if any of the professionals who treated him had any responsibility.
Maradona died at noon on Wednesday, November 25, in the private neighborhood of San Andrés, Tigre, as a result of pulmonary edema and cardiac decompensation.
On November 3, he had undergone surgery for a subdural hematoma (hemorrhage on the brain surface) at the Olivos Clinic, in Vicente López, by a team led by the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque.
Eight days later, Luque endorsed, together with the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, and two of Maradona's daughters (Gianinna and Jana), his transfer to the country, despite the fact that in the prepaid medicine company (Swiss Medical) he accepted his discharge but clarified that He did not have a "medical discharge", so he recommended the continuation of his therapeutic treatment for his addiction to alcohol.
In addition, he proposed to continue with "psychiatric, clinical, rehabilitation and toxicological treatment under the modality of hospitalization in a rehabilitation center with a support psychiatric team."
The San Isidro attorney general, John Broyad, is in charge of the team that investigates whether there was "wrongful death" in the death of Maradona by Luque and Cosachov.
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