The ex-footballer Diego Armando Maradona would have died from acute cardiorespiratory arrestaccording to a new forensic report released this Monday, which might turn around the judicial case investigating the death, since discards the 12-hour agony recorded in the first medical report.
Waiting for it to start the trial for the death of the Argentine idol, scheduled for June 4the study, presented before the Oral Criminal Court 3 of San Isidro (province of Buenos Aires) -where the case is being processed-, warns that ’10’ had a “acute ventricular arrhythmia of organic origin or the external action of an element other than the natural one, not being able to rule out the presence of a toxin unrelated to the therapeutic drugs“.
According to this new expertise, requested by the defense of the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, accused of simple homicide due to possible intent, The final cause of death would be “cardiorespiratory arrest, secondary to acute pulmonary edema.”produced by acute left ventricular failure (acute heart failure), in an agonizing condition of short duration, being estimated in minutes or at most a few hours.
The medical report of the case decreed that the soccer star had “heart failure with agony of up to 12 hours,” which is why Justice considered that his death might have been avoided and that the medical actions were “deficient, inefficient and indifferent.”
According to Cosachov’s lawyer, Vadim Mischanchuk, the new forensic conclusions might turn the case around.
“We went from an acute chronic event to an acute event. This tells us that Maradona had an arrhythmia and not an edema that compressed the heart. It might have had two causes: one natural and the other, a product of the ingestion of a toxic substance unrelated to him. the medication that my client prescribed,” the lawyer declared to the Todo Noticias (TN) channel.
The new document highlighted that the former player and former national team coach had a “history of consumption” and denounced that there were irregularities during the autopsy.
The other six defendants, all linked to the health care that Maradona should have received, are the psychologist Carlos Díaz; the doctor who coordinated the former soccer player’s home care, Nancy Forlini; the coordinator of the nurses, Mariano Perroni; the nurse Ricardo Omar Almirón; the nurse Dahiana Gisela Madrid and the clinical doctor Pedro Di Spagna.
Due to his addiction to alcohol, Maradona, 60, entered a clinic in La Plata (Buenos Aires province) on November 2, 2020 suffering from anemia and dehydration; Subsequently, he was referred to a sanatorium in the Buenos Aires town of Olivos, where he underwent surgery for a subdural hematoma and was discharged on the 11th.
He was taken to his home, but died on November 25, 2020.
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