Sevilla football player Antonio Puerta dies of postanoxic encephalopathy and multiorgan dysfunction

By: Peter Chubb | August 28, 2007

Antonio Puerta the defender for the Spanish football team in Sevilla has died at the young age of just 22, although his death looked like a heart attack, the actual cause of death was postanoxic encephalopathy and multiorgan dysfunction. Puerta was on an intensive care machine since he collapsed during a football match between La Liga fixture and Getafe.

But Antonio could not last out much longer and died of postanoxic encephalopathy, this is a delayed result when you are in a coma and the brain does not get enough oxygen to the brain, he also had secondary multiorgan failure, this was due to prolonged cardiac arrest.

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