Diagnostic approach to the urological disease of Pope Innocent XI. Analysis of pathochrony and diagnostic re-formulation

A diagnostic reformulation of the cause of death of Pope Innocent XI is made on the basis of the reinterpretation of the autopsy report performed in 1769 by Giovanni Maria Lancisi and the accompanying drawing and current knowledge. of the autopsy practiced in 1769 by Giovanni Maria Lancisi, and of the drawing that accompanies it and the current knowledge. It is Pope Innocent XI died of end-stage renal failure due to pyonephrosis caused by a bilateral coralliform lithiasis in a horseshoe kidney. in a horseshoe kidney.

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A diagnostic reformulation of Pope Innocent XI's cause of death is made based on the reinterpretation of an autopsy report and drawing by Giovanni Maria Lancisi in 1769, as well as current knowledge. It is concluded that Pope Innocent XI died of end-stage renal failure caused by pyonephrosis due to bilateral coralliform lithiasis in a horseshoe kidney.