Died last June, Kevin Campbell continues to be talked about, even after his death, the circumstances around his death remaining vague. The medical examiner of the Manchester region, Zak Goldberg, learned that the former player of Everton and Arsenal had lost 10 kilos between January and May of last year, the fastest falling in the weeks preceding his death. Weight loss caused by rare heart infection which, according to MRI, should have been detected earlier.
Professor Peter Shelby, hospital consultant at the hospital, told inspectors in charge of the investigation: “How is it that a man who, a few months ago, was in perfect health, suddenly deteriorated?” It would have taken a little more curiosity. ” The doctor added that the hospital could also better analyze the evolution of the weight of patients. A latest blood analysis, carried out after the doctors decided that there was nothing to do to save it, revealed endocarditis, infection of a cardiac valve hitherto not diagnosed. But the medical examiner said that detecting it earlier would not have saved his life. His condition required an open heart operation, an operation to which Campbell would have been too sick anyway to survive.
