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pinochets 'medical report' Senator Pinochet has a complex medical history, but the main active medical problems at present are diabetic peripheral neuropathy and recently progressive cerebrovascular brain damage. The diabetic neuropathology is contributing to difficulties in walking and to the observed tendency to postural hypertension. The diabetes will also have predisposed to arterial disease as will a past history of smoking The cerebrovascular disease has manifested partly as minor strokes and transient asthmatic attacks but …

…age. He was a person of superior intelligence and at present is functioning within the low average/average range. Short term memory, learning ability and delayed recall all show severe deficit. His greatest difficulty is his inability to retain information over time. There is no evidence that General Pinochet is attempting to fake disability. In my opinion he would not be able to cope with the legal complexities of a trial". Bibliography The pinochet doctors