Maradona died of pulmonary edema and heart muscle disease
In public for the first time, the findings of the autopsy of the death of a former football star Diego Armanda Maradonewho revealed that the Argentine died of acute pulmonary edema and heart muscle disease. Details regarding his death came on the day during the trial of the medical staff, who took care of him before his death in 2020.
According to the French news agency AFP, the trial of seven doctors and nurses began on Tuesday. His personal doctor sat on the bench Leopold Luque and his psychiatrist Augustina Cosachovwho, together with a psychologist, another doctor and medical coordinator of one of the insurance companies and two nurses, are charged with murder.
All the accused deny the blame. If they are found guilty, they threaten up to 25 years in prison. Maradona was supposed to spend a 12-hour agony before death, according to death viewers, as water accumulated in his abdomen and lungs. There were so four and a half liters of water in his organs, which began to accumulate a few days earlier.
Maradon’s daughter Gianinna also testified at the trial. Photo: Tomas Cuesta/AFP
According to the forensics testimony Carlosa Mauricio Casinelli Maradon’s death was neither sudden nor unexpected. His heart weighed twice the usual at death. Cassinelli added that his medical condition was certainly not such that it would be suitable for home care. Investigators claim that there were quite a few serious mistakes.
The start of the trial has been postponed several times due to many extraordinary circumstances. The trial is expected to last at least by mid -July, during which time 192 witnesses will be heard. There is another separate procedure against a nurse who is not part of the main hearing and will be scheduled in the second half of the year.
Maradona was operated on the brain a few weeks before his death. He died on 25 in November 2020 in a private residence in the northern part of Buenos Aires. He is considered one of the best players in football history, at the 1986 World Cup, he was captain of the winning Argentine selected species. In his home country, he played on the club scene for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors and Newell’s Old Boys, Spain for Barcelona and Sevilla, and in Italy for Napoli.
