BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – The toxicology report conducted as part of the investigation into Diego Maradona’s death revealed on Tuesday that there were no alcohol or illegal drugs in the football player’s body, but several drugs were present to physical health and mental, legal sources reported Tuesday.
San Isidro’s Office of the Attorney General of San Isidro, which is in charge of the case seeking to determine whether there was any malpractice surrounding the health of the Argentinean idol, who died of cardiac arrest on Nov. 25, released a statement after receiving the toxicological examinations and histopathological of the corpse.
Specifically, the blood sample analyzed and recorded in the Legal Chemical Report indicates that in the body of “El 10” there was the presence of levetiracetam (an anticonvulsant drug) and desmethylvenlafaxine (an antidepressant).
Similarly, in the urine test, venlafaxine (antidepressant), quetiapine (antipsychotic), naltrexoma (used to treat drug or alcohol dependence), and metoclopramide, used to treat nausea, were also detected.
Another analysis also found the presence of ranitidine, used to treat stomach problems.
With regard to the histopathological picture, the report indicates that Maradona suffered from liver cirrhosis, acute tubular necrosis associated with chronic kidney disease, myocardiofibrosis, subendocardial fibrosis and areas indicative of acute ischemia, as well as non-occlusive calcified coronary atheromatosis and lung with asphyxiation features associated with pathology . aggravated chronic lung.
The Italian singer criticized the extensive coverage that the Argentinian football player’s death received.
Also the presence of siderophages that “may be compatible with heart failure”.
Focal glomerulosclerosis, atherosclerosis, ischemic heart disease, and arterial hyperplasia in the sinoatrial node have also been reported.
Maradona died at the age of 60 at the home in Buenos Aires province, where he was recovering from surgery for, among other things, a brain hematoma performed in early November, and an investigation was launched after the death to determine if there were any . negligence in their treatment.
After his death, Argentine justice launched an investigation that has not yet been formally charged or detained, although several searches and seizures have been made of the properties of the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, who treated Maradona and participated in his intervention for a brain hematoma to early November, and from his psychiatrist, Agustina Cosachov.
The apartment where Maximiliano Trimarchi lives, who worked as the driver of the former football player, was also searched and his cell phone was seized.