The last cardiologist to treat Argentine football star Diego Maradona before his death in 2020 said the sports icon’s head doctor, Leopoldo Luque, rejected his suggestions to carry out more extensive testing to discard a potential heart disease.

Cardiologist Oscar Franco was the key witness at Tuesday’s hearing in the trial over Maradona’s death at the age of 60. Franco treated Maradona shortly before his death, when the former footballer underwent a series of medical tests at the Ipensa Clinic in La Plata.

The former star was admitted to the clinic for a battery of tests after a public appearance in October in which he appeared visibly unwell. There, doctors diagnosed him with a subdural hematoma, for which he underwent........

© Buenos Aires Herald