マラドーナ氏、アルコールや違法薬物は検出されず　検視

【ブエノスアイレスＡＦＰ＝時事】11月に亡くなったサッカー元アルゼンチン代表のレジェンド、ディエゴ・マラドーナ氏の検視で、肝臓や腎臓、心臓血管に疾患があったことが分かったものの、体内からアルコールや違法薬物は検出されなかったと、検察当局が23日に発表した。（写真はサッカー元アルゼンチン代表のレジェンド、ディエゴ・マラドーナ氏の死を悼む親子）
　１９８６年のＷ杯メキシコ大会を制したアルゼンチン代表で主将を務めたマラドーナ氏は、１１月２５日に心臓発作により６０歳でこの世を去った。
　検視は死をめぐる捜査の一環として命じられ、医療上の過失や無謀があったかを調べるために行われた。
　毒物分析の結果、血中や尿からアルコールや違法薬物は検出されなかったが、抗うつ薬や抗精神病薬のほか、潰瘍、発作、依存症、排せつ障害の治療薬を服用していたことが分かった。
　マラドーナ氏は生前、コカイン中毒やアルコール依存症に悩まされ、晩年は肝硬変、心臓病、腎不全などに苦しんだ。
　ある捜査官は国営通信ＴＥＬＡＭで、「分析で明らかになったことは、明らかになっていないことと同じくらい重要だ。マラドーナ氏は向精神薬を服用していたが、心臓病の薬は処方されていなかった」と話した。
　現在、マラドーナ氏の治療に関わっていた精神科医のアグスティナ・コサチョフ氏と主治医のレオポルド・ルケ氏が、捜査対象となっている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/12/24-12:33）

Argentina football legend Diego Maradona was suffering from liver, kidney and cardiovascular disorders but there were no signs of alcohol or narcotics consumption in his autopsy, the public prosecutor said on Wednesday.
World Cup winning captain from Mexico '86, Maradona died of a heart-attack on November 25 at the age of 60.
The public prosecutor in San Isidro, a northern suburb of the capital Buenos Aires, published the results of Maradona's autopsy late on Tuesday night.
It was ordered as part of an investigation into his death to see if there was any negligence or recklessness in the health care he was provided.
At the end of his life he was suffering from a variety of illnesses including cirrhosis, heart disease and kidney failure.
The toxicology analysis showed there was no alcohol or narcotics in his blood or urine but Maradona was taking anti-depressants, an anti-psychotic drug and various other medication to treat ulcers, convulsions, dependencies and difficulties in expelling waste.
Maradona had battled cocaine and alcohol addictions during his life.
What's come out of the laboratory analysis is as important as what hasn't, which simply confirms that Maradona was given psychotropic drugs but no medicine for heart disease, one of the investigators told the Telam press agency.
Psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and heart surgeon Leopoldo Luque are under investigation as they were treating Maradona before his death.
A first autopsy conducted the day Maradona died found he had suffered from liquid on the lungs with acute heart failure brought on by a disease of the heart muscles that makes it harder to pump blood.
Maradona's heart was twice the normal weight.
He had undergone an operation for a bleed on the brain on November 3, just five days after his 60th birthday where he briefly attended a party in his honor at the club he was coaching, Gimnasia y Esgrima, although he appeared to be in poor health.
Maradona was widely regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time.
He is a legend in his homeland having been instrumental in guiding them to World Cup glory in 1986 and then again to the final in Italy four years later.
He is also an icon in Naples were as a player he helped Napoli win the only two Serie A titles in their history.
He had much less success as a coach, taking Argentina to the World Cup quarter-finals in South Africa in 2010 before embarking on a nomadic journey that took him to the United Arab Emirates and Mexico.
He was the coach of Argentine Primera Division side Gimnasia at the time of his death.