Maradona. New analyzes: no drugs or alcohol but important traces of psychotropic drugs

2020-12-23T12:23:35.374Z

There are no traces of alcohol, drugs but a massive presence of psychotropic drugs. This is what has emerged from new analyzes by experts of the Argentine scientific police in the blood and urine of Diego Armando Maradona, who died on 25 November last. The news agency Telam writes. The agency specifies that the drugs detected during the toxicological examination are "venlafaxine, quetiapine, levetiracetam enaltrexone", and that some of these, according to experts, are "arrhythmogens", ie capable of producing arrhythmias. Doubts about the use of psychotropic drugs The Argentine judiciary at this point will have to check whether those drugs were suitable for a patient with chronic heart disease such as the one that Maradona suffered. At first glance, said a member of the team of investigators working in the investigation opened after Maradona's death, "it is surprising that he has been given psychotropic drugs and none related to his heart disease." The drugs under accusation Medical sources also explained to Télam that venlafaxine is an antidepressant drug to treat anxiety disorders; quetiapine is an antipsychotic for severe depression and some addictions; levetiracetam is an antiepileptic drug which acts on the central nervous system and can cause drowsiness and impaired responsiveness. Finally, naltrexone blocks the effect of opioid drugs and is used to prevent alcohol withdrawal. A commission to clarify On the basis of these results, which are added to those of the autopsy in early December, the idea of ​​the three prosecutors conducting the investigation is to convene an interdisciplinary medical commission to analyze the case and judge if death were avoidable, if there was negligence, and if any of the professionals involved, the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, may have responsibility. The autopsy had established that Maradona died of "acute pulmonary edema linked to acute chronic heart failure" and "dilated cardiomyopathy".