Na co chorował i co było przyczyną śmierci Fryderyka Chopina?

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  • Michał Witt Instytut Genetyki Człowieka PAN, Poznań

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Frederic Chopin, cystic fibrosis, heart, pericarditis, tuberculosis

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Based on a visual analysis of the heart of Frederic Chopin performed in 2014 and described above, it can be stated with high probability that the composer suffered from a long lasting tuberculosis as a primary disease, which was the cause of progressive deterioration of his physical condition and numerous symptoms mainly from the respiratory tract. Tuberculous pericarditis rapidly progressing within a rather short period of time, a relatively rare complication of diffuse tuberculosis, might have been an immediate cause of death. This would aptly coincide with a startling opinion that in an autopsy picture the composer’s heart had been more affected by the disease than the lungs.

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