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Warwick Davis’s wife died as hospital planned to discharge her, inquest finds

Actor and dwarfism charity founder suffered cardiac arrest after surgery complications, coroner concludes

Prof Fiona Wilcox, of Inner West London coroner’s court, concluded during Davis’s inquest on Monday that she had died of arrhythmic cardiac arrest after complications of essential surgical treatment. According to Wilcox, Davis had achondroplasia, a bone growth disorder that results in dwarfism, which was “complicated by very severe spinal problems” requiring multiple surgeries from 2016. She commended the “excellent care” provided by the hospital, noting that it was “frankly heartbreaking” that the surgery itself was successful only for complications to arise and to cause her death.

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