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What was Frederic Chopin's illness? A Clinical-pathological Conference 176 years after his death. Chopin’s Illness: A Clinicopathological Review

2026-06-01

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>This article revisits, in the format of a clinicopathological conference, the illness that led to the death of Frédéric Chopin at the age of 39 in 1849. Although tuberculosis has been historically accepted as the most likely cause, the authors propose an alternative hypothesis based on the integration of clinical, iconographic, and pathological evidence: chronic heart failure secondary...

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Literature Corpus work: 643a577b-a9e9-5d33-9ed4-978511fbd6a5
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9532205/v1

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