Diego Maradona died in his sleep after suffering heart failure which caused a pulmonary edema, a preliminary autopsy has discovered.
The soccer legend suffered a sudden death in his bed at the rented home near Buenos Aires he moved to after leaving hospital on November 11 following a brain blood clot op, the post-mortem showed.
Medics are also said to have detected dilated cardiomyopathy, a medical condition in which the heart muscle becomes weakened and enlarged and cannot pump enough blood to the rest of the body.
Pulmonary edema, fluid accumulation in the lung’s tissue and air spaces, are caused by heart problems in most cases. Maradona's body arrived at the presidential palace in Argentina on Thursday as a country pays its last
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