The legendary Diego Maradona suffered from liver, cardiovascular and kidney disease, but there were no signs of alcohol or drug use in histopathology and toxicology studies, the prosecutor’s office reported investigating his death on November 25, at the age of 60.
In a statement released Tuesday evening, the San Isidro (Northern Periphery) prosecution released the results of the autopsy additional analyzes, which are to determine whether there was negligence, recklessness or inexperience with health treatments.
According to the report, Maradona suffered from cirrhosis, acute tubular necrosis (kidney disease), focal glomerulosclerosis (renal insufficiency), atherosclerosis (accumulation of fats and cholesterol in the arteries), ischemic heart disease (atherosclerosis of coronary arteries) and arterial hyperplasia in the sinoatrial node (heart disease).
Toxicological analysis of blood and urine samples showed negative results for alcohol and narcotics, but positive for venlafaxine, quetiapine, levetiracetam and naltrexone. Smethylvenlafaxine, metoclopramide and ranitidine were also detected, according to the report released nearly a month after Maradona’s death.
“It’s just as important what seemed as what didn’t emerge from these lab tests, which at first glance confirm that Maradona was on psychotropic drugs but not medication for his heart condition,” one of the researchers told Telam’s office.
The psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and the heart surgeon Leopoldo Luque are under judicial supervision because they are the two professionals who treated the former Albiceleste captain.
The autopsy on the day of his death confirmed this de ‘Pelusa’ died of ‘acute pulmonary edema secondary to aggravated chronic heart failure, with dilated cardiomyopathy “.
His heart had weighed twice as much as normal for twenty years.
The World Champion inaugurated in Mexico-1986 had surgery on a head hematoma on November 3, five days after his 60th birthday, after impressing his poor physical condition and difficulty speaking in the gymnastics field on October 30. , the team he led.