Medical study reveals new hypothesis about Maradona’s death

Buenos Aires. A recent medical examination in the case of Diego Maradona resulted in a new hypothesis about the causes of his death just over a month before the start of the oral trial for homicide against eight defendants, including doctors and nurses.

The legendary Diez of the Argentina national team died on November 25, 2020 at the age of 60, due to cardiorespiratory arrest while he was undergoing a home stay on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, after surgery in which an edema was removed. cranial.

A subsequent medical board concluded that the former footballer did not receive adequate treatment for a patient with his condition and that he would be alive if he had been hospitalized.

This report served as the basis for the formal accusation against neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, who was in charge of the health of the former captain of the former world champion in 1986, for simple homicide with possible intent. Also accused are the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, the psychologist Carlos Díaz, the doctors Nancy Forlini and Pedro Di Spagna, the nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni and the nurses Ricardo Almirón and Dahiana Madrid.

The eight will face an oral trial starting June 4. A new expertise requested by the oral court at the request of the defenses and released this Monday produced results that disagree with the statements of the experts who participated in the first report.

According to this new study, Maradona suffered an “acute ventricular arrhythmia of organic origin or the external action of an element other than a natural one, not being able to rule out the presence of a toxin unrelated to therapeutic drugs.”

In this regard, the expert recalled that Maradona had a “history of consumption” of narcotics.

While the medical board determined that Maradona suffered heart failure with agony lasting up to 12 hours, expert Ferrari said that it was “a short-term agonizing condition.”

Regarding his hypothesis about a toxic substance unrelated to the medication Maradona was receiving, the expert warned that it cannot be identified due to an alleged irregularity in the preservation of Maradona’s urine samples.

Ferrari denounced that of the 300 milliliters of urine that were extracted from Maradona’s body to be examined, two tubes with 12 millimeters each arrived at the laboratory, which are insufficient to carry out toxicological analyzes.

“This gives a radical turn in the (judicial) case,” said lawyer Vadim Mischanchuk, who represents the psychiatrist Cosachov, to the Todos Noticias channel. “Maradona had an arrhythmia, not an edema that compressed the heart and led to a long period of agony. It goes from being a cardiac event that lasts many days to one that lasts minutes.”

“The psychiatrist’s medication was not what determined the arrhythmia,” the lawyer noted.

The prosecutor’s office in charge of the investigation indicated that the new expert opinion “lacks logical foundations” and announced that it will be challenged at trial.