     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE DECEASED'S WIFE VIA TELEPHONE, THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY SUFFERED FROM CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER WHICH WAS DUE TO HEPATITIS. HE ALSO HAD ESOPHAGEAL VARICES.  HE CONSUMED ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES JUST ON SOME WEEKENDS AND ON A SOCIAL BASIS; WAS NOT AN ALCOHOLIC.   ON JULY 9,1996 HE WAS ADMITTED TO COLUMBIA DEERING HOSPITAL TO UNDERGO A RIGHT INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR AND A RIGHT ORCHIECTOMY BECAUSE OF INCARCERATED HERNIA. AFTER THE SURGERY HE DEVELOPED AN UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING DUE TO ESOPHAGEAL VARICES. HE WAS STABILIZED AND WAS LATER (ON JULY 16,1996) TRANSFERED TO SOUTH MIAMI HOSPITAL, WHERE HE UNDERWENT A TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT (TIPS) PROCEDURE.  HE DEVELOPED THROMBOCYTOPENIA SECONDARY TO HIS CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND HYPERPLENISM.  HIS PLATELET COUNT WENT AS LOW AS 53,OOO. HIS CONDITION IMPROVED DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AND ON THE DAY OF HIS DISCHARGE (JULY 23,1996) PLATELET COUNT WAS UP TO A HIGH OF 88,000.
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     ON ARRIVAL AT HOME ON JULY 23, HE WAS WEAK AND COMPALINED OF GENERAL ILL FEELING.  ON JULY 26, 1996 P.M., HE WAS FOUND UNRESPONSIVE ON BED.  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED. THEN DECEASED WENT INTO A CONVULSION, THEN COLLAPSED.  WAS TRANSPORTED TO COLUMBIA DEERING HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 9:48 PM.
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  ** WIFE REQUESTED NO AUTOPSY **
   

