Pedro Jose Negreiros Andrade

Frédéric Chopin's illness: a clinicopathological Conference 176 years after his death

Abstract 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 hypo...