Man died after blood clot under cast went to lungs

A MAN who broke his leg and couldn’t move around on his crutches died from a massive blood clot which formed under his cast due to deep vein thrombosis, an inquest heard yesterday.

Cork Coroner’s Court heard that Tony Cronnolly, 55, who lived at 13 Winter’s Hill, Sunday’s Well Road in Cork, had a cast placed on his left leg after breaking his tibia in a fall a few weeks before his death last February.

But Mr Cronnolly found it difficult to get around on the crutches.