2023-05-25 15:47:01
They met the toxicological expertise made to the body deceased psychologist, Melchor Rodrigoin it fire followed by death involving Felipe Pettinato.
The study yielded as a result the presence of psychotropic drugs with compounds ofmethylphenidate, clomipramine, and zolpidem which in large doses can produce Depression of the central nervous system”.
Likewise, it was detailed that these components, combined with other factors can even generate sudden death.
This situation, “added to the carbon monoxide effectplus the high concentrations of carbon dioxide and other toxic gases in the environment together with the individual characteristics of the cause (he suffered from heart disease), could have negatively influenced their ability to flee of fire”.
«Likewise, the individual conditions previously indicated, together with what is stated in the medical-legal considerations, could lead to the assumption, from the thanatological point of view, that may have caused death in the initial stages of the fire by a combination of the aforementioned factors,” the document added.
Precisely the presence of carbon monoxide in blood (carboxihemoglobina) was 16.6%.
Regarding the drugs found, “both methylphenidate and chlorimipramine present cardiotoxic effects, even at therapeutic concentrationsbeing able to add the cardiotoxic effects».
«Adds the action of hypoxic hypoxia (the fire generates a decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the environment) plus the carbon monoxide inhalationwhich causes anemic hypoxia (hemoglobin has a greater affinity for CO than for oxygen, decreasing the transport of oxygen to the tissues – especially those most sensitive to this hypoxia, heart and brain-«, indicated the report of the Forensic Medical Corps as to how these issues can influence the causes of death of the victim.
He also added: “Add the hitotoxic action of carbon monoxidegiven by the inhibition of all enzymes that contain iron or heme-proteins (cytochrome oxidase, guanyl cyclase, myoglobin, catalases, etc.) leading to the formation of harmful products (free radicals) and cell apoptosis».
“With the synergy and potentiation of psychoactive drugs Added to the environmental hypoxia as well as that caused by the inhalation of monoxide plus the inhalation of smoke with different substances which are part of it, we consider that there could have been a summation of effects that could cause respiratory depression, cardiac toxicity and sudden death“added the analysis to which Noticias Argentinas had access.
“The cause of death, determined macroscopically was 90 percent critical burns from the body surface. Pulmonary congestion, edema, and hemorrhage“Detailed the autopsy performed at the time on Rodrigo.
Felipe Pettinato case: clarification from the Prosecutor’s Office
“What is investigated is a fire followed by deathwhich ranges, as criminal hypotheses, from an unintentional fire that had that consequence (the death of a person) to one that was caused intentionally and had the same consequence, or that it was an intentional death and was committed by means of of a fire,” he said.
On a version that circulates in relation to that the victim had traces of hydrocarbons on his legs and that this indicated that it had been doused with fuel, the Prosecutor’s Office stressed that does not agree with the results of the expert reportsbut it is due to a free interpretation made on the results of a chemical study that indicated the presence of remains of “aliphatic hydrocarbons” in all the samples analyzed and obtained from various places of the event.
The representation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) indicated that Pettinato’s hospitalization and medical discharge from a mental health clinic that occurred last week “they do not modify their role in the investigation They neither alter -nor did they alter- the objective that the prosecution set for itself from the beginning, in terms of completing the investigation and then making the decisions on the case.”
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