Ex-Everton and Arsenal striker Kevin Campbell died of natural causes

The retired player from the Premier League, Kevin Campbell, died of natural causes after severely ill with heart and renal failure, a forensic concluded.

The former Everton striker and arsenal He died 54 in Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) on June 15 of last year.

The Manchester Forensic Court heard that Hey was “desperately badly” when he was admitted to the hospital months before his death and lost more than half of his body weight.

The coroner Zak Golombek discovered that a delay in the diagnosis of a strange cardiac infection “did not contribute more than minimally” to his death.

Dr. Robert Henney, a magnetic resonance consultant, told the investigation that many people “may not have survived to get to the hospital” in their condition.

Campbell, who also played for Nottingham Forest and Trabzonsor in Türkiye, had been in shape and well until around January 2024.

He was told to the audience that he had suffered heart and renal insufficiency, but no underlying cause of his decline in six and a half weeks in the hospital was identified.

It was deactivated in March 2024 after “responding well to treatment”, but was then readmitted to the hospital in May, according to the investigation.

Golombek said Campbell had lost more than half of his body weight between the two admissions.

He said that “lost opportunities” to diagnose Mr. Campbell with a cardiac infection known as infectious endocarditis “had not contributed more than minimally to his death in the balance of probabilities.”

Campbell died in June and gave a provisional cause of death as a multiorgan failure.

Magnetic resonance declared that a level 5 patient safety incident to investigate that a delay in the diagnosis of infection could have contributed to his death.

The investigation heard that this was later degraded to a level 2 incident and the hospital concluded that his death was “possible but not very likely.”

Dr. Henney said the previous results of images and tests suggested “infectious endocarditis was not present the first income.”

Dr. Colin Cunnington, a consulting cardiologist, told the audience that it was probably Campbell caught the infection between the two admissions, coinciding with the significant loss of weight.

Golombed described the medical cause of death as “multiple insufficiency as a result of infectious endocarditis and pneumonia acquired in the hospital.”