Abstract

MEJIA, Orlando. Medical record of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Acta Med Colomb [online]. 2013, vol.38, n.4, pp.244-257. ISSN 0120-2448.

Abstract The hypotheses in regard to the pathologies that had Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) in his life, the final illness and the cause of his death have generated about 160 different diagnoses. This paper analyzes the most relevant causes from the point of view of internal medicine and suggests that it is unlikely that he were a chronically ill patient or a mental patient, or that he had a genetic syndrome or had been poisoned. We conclude that in the last two months of its existence he had a possible severe systemic arterial hypertension and then developed a nephrotic syndrome or nephrotic - nephritic caused perhaps by typhoid fever, and that in his last days the complications of an acute renal failure appeared and had a final hemorrhagic cerebrovascular accident. (Acta Med Colomb 2013; 38: 244-254).

Keywords : Mozart; clinic; pathobiography; hypertension; nephrotic syndrome; typhoid fever; acute renal failure; hemorrhagic stroke.

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