Argentine football star died due to a pulmonary edema caused by heart failure on November 25, 2020
He had no alcohol or “abuse drugs” in his blood when he died, despite his consumption history, said on Tuesday (1st) an expert in the trial of seven health professionals for the death of the former player in Argentina in 2020. “None of the four tubes [de amostras] He gave positive to cocaine, marijuana, mdma, ecstasy or amphetamine, ”said biochemical expert Ezequiel Pentosi, who analyzed the blood, urine and saliva samples of Maradona after his death and found that there was also no alcohol. Heart failure on November 25, 2020, while in home hospitalization after a neurosurgery.
The expertise performed after his death detected five substances corresponding to antidepressant, anticonvulsant, antipsychotics and nausea drugs. The testimony of Seenii occurred at the opening of the fourth week of the trial, which takes place in San Isidro, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, near the town of Tigre, where the idol passed away. At the hearing on Tuesday, the 2021 testimony of Maradona’s personal physician was read between 1978 and 2009, Alfredo Cahe, died in 2024. According to the document, Cahe saw Maradona in November 2020, when he recovered from neurosurgery at the Olivos clinic. Everything seemed “strange” to him, and Leopoldo Luque, the former player’s doctor at the time of his death and one of the accused, did not answer his questions about the patient’s health.
Home hospitalization “was the least indicated” for Maradona, because “he should be under intensive care with constant and continuous heart monitoring,” said Cahe, who pointed out negligence due to lack of control and cardiac medication administration. “With adequate monitoring and control, (death) was avoidable,” he said in the statement. In addition, three other experts also gave testimony, including anatom-patologist Silvana de Piero, who analyzed the organs after the death and detailed that the liver showed signs compatible with cirrhosis, the kidneys had insufficiency, the lungs suffered from a chronic pathology, and the heart showed signs of lack of oxygen.
Seven health professionals (doctors, nurses, a psychiatrist, and a psychologist) are accused of eventual offender, a typification that implies that they were aware that their actions could lead to the patient’s death. An eighth accused, a nurse, will be tried in a separate process. The trial, which began on March 11, should extend at least until July, with the testimony of dozens of witnesses. The accused can take feathers from 8 to 25 years in prison.
*With information from AFP
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