Surfer Andy Irons? Cause Of Death: Heart Disease & Drug Use

The final autopsy and toxicology report for Andy Irons has been released, six months after his death.

Andy Irons, 32, was found dead in November in a Dallas airport hotel room, but his cause of death is just now being released.

Two independent reviews of the cause of the surfer?s death include drug use and heart disease.

Dr. Vincent Di Maio, a forensic pathologist hired by Andy?s family, said, ?This is a very straightforward case. Mr. Irons died of a heart attack due to focal severe coronary atherosclerosis, i.e., ?hardening of the arteries.? He had an atherosclerotic plaque producing 70-to-80 percent narrowing of his anterior descending coronary artery. This is very severe narrowing. A plaque of this severity, located in the anterior descending coronary artery, is commonly associated with sudden death.?

But in the months after his death, rumors of the surfer?s drug use mounted.? The Chief Medical Examiner,? Nizam Peerwani of Tarrant County, lists Irons? death as ?acute mixed drug ingestion?.

The drugs methadone and Xanax were found in Andy?s system, as well as benzoylecgonine (which is a by-product of cocaine use).? The amount of benzoylecgonine found in Irons? system ?is consistent with the use of cocaine at about 30 hours prior to his death?.

Irons had been prescribed both Xanax and Zolpidem to treat his anxiety and insomnia. He also had bipolar disorder.? But five years ago, the surfer also contracted typhoid fever, which can damage your heart.

Irons had been suffering from flu-type symptoms the days before his death.

The Irons family said in a statement, ?As we are not doctors, we have no choice but to accept that two respected pathologists have come to different conclusions about a secondary contributing cause of death?.

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