Based on a visual analysis of the heart of Frederic Chopin performed in 2014 and
described above, it can be stated with high probability that the composer suffered
from a long lasting tuberculosis as a primary disease, which was the cause of progressive deterioration of his physical condition and numerous symptoms mainly
from the respiratory tract. Tuberculous pericarditis rapidly progressing within
a rather short period of time, a relatively rare complication of diffuse tuberculosis, might have been an immediate cause of death. This would aptly coincide with
a startling opinion that in an autopsy picture the composer’s heart had been
more affected by the disease than the lung