Overview
- Prateek Yadav, who fell suddenly ill at home Wednesday, was declared dead at Lucknow’s Civil Hospital at 5:55 am.
- The provisional postmortem at King George’s Medical University reports cardiorespiratory collapse from a massive pulmonary thromboembolism, which is a large clot blocking blood flow in the lungs.
- Doctors preserved the whole heart, clot material, and viscera for histopathology and chemical tests, and officials said the autopsy was videographed under protocol.
- Hospital records and treating clinicians say he had hypertension, deep vein thrombosis, and a recent pulmonary embolism, with a last noted visit to Medanta on April 29 for chest discomfort and breathing trouble.
- Reports of injury marks surfaced in a single outlet, but officials have not linked them to the death, and further forensic analysis is underway as political leaders offered condolences and scaled back events.