Maradona’s heart weighed twice as much and justice investigates whether there was negligence

Experts carry out studies on the viscera of the autopsy to determine which drugs he ingested, or if there are traces of alcohol or other substances in the hours before his death.

A week after the global turmoil over Diego Maradona’s death, justice scans his heart, among other toxicology studies, to determine if there has been neglect and family intimacies are revealed in the sports star’s final days.

Amid social sadness, amazement and tolls that multiply from death at 60 in his sickbed, experts began this Wednesday 2-D laboratory studies to find out if there are those responsible for neglect, recklessness or inexperience in health treatments.

On the one hand, they examine her heart, the weight of which has been twice normal for 20 years: paradoxically, the same one she gave with her soul and in every attitude of her new life.

But the tests also included blood, urine, and swabs to determine which medications and what dose he was taking, or if there are traces of alcohol or other substances in the hours before his death.

Excesses and addictions were the origin of the health emergencies that repeatedly brought the world legend to the brink of death.

Maradona had overcome his addiction to hard drugs years ago. But his surroundings warned that he continued to consume alcohol, combined with tranquilizers and anxiolytics.

It is not known to what extent they were prescribed by doctors.

Avoid the “circus”

“Histopathological studies (of the viscera of the autopsy) and toxicological studies have begun. They are followed by cell phone analysis, medical records, until the entire report reaches a medical commission,” Vadim Mischanchuk, a lawyer, told C5N channel. by Agustina Cosachov, the psychiatrist. by Maradona.

Cosachov and cardiac surgeon Leopoldo Luque are under judicial scrutiny for being the two professionals who assisted the former Albiceleste captain. It is suspected that there may have been “(involuntary) manslaughter”, but there are still no charges or defendants.

“You have to respect people. There is a grieving family. Go step by step. You can’t put someone in front of a camera to say that this or that thing has happened. Otherwise this will be a circus, something shameful,” he warned. Mischanchuk to go down anxious about an analysis of tests and labs whose results will not be disclosed publicly.

The truth about what happened to Maradona’s health will only be known when the medical commission appointed by the prosecution issues an opinion. How long the process will take is completely ignored.

The autopsy revealed that the death on November 25 in a residence in Tigre, in the north, was caused by “acute pulmonary edema secondary to exacerbated chronic heart failure, with dilated cardiomyopathy”.

One daughter asked for a chief physician

Even the media, as happened with Maradona in life, set out in search of the intimacy of a hectic emotional life.

Some chats transcend. One of them was interesting, because one of the daughters, Dalma, her sisters Gianinna and Jana told her: “I think we should think about getting a clinician next to the bed”, without questioning Luque or Cosachov, but with the indispensable search for a chief physician who coordinates the rest of the home hospitalization.

The world champion consecrated in Mexico-1986 had been operated on for a bruise on his head on November 3.

On his birthday, October 30, his poor physical condition and difficulty speaking were affected when he showed up on the gymnastics field, the team he was managing.

All testimonies from his relatives point to the depression he suffered from eight months of imprisonment in a residence near La Plata in the south as a patient at risk of the coronavirus pandemic.