Andrews, kalbinin etrafındaki arterdeki yırtık nedeniyle öldü - otopsi

Hyron Andrews - the former Sale second row found dead at his new team's hotel base before a Champions Cup match in France on Saturday - died of natural causes, an autopsy has found.

The 31-year-old, who joined the Johannesburg-based Lions this summer, suffered a tear in the aorta, an artery which carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body.

The rupture led to blood filling the muscle sac surrounding his heart.

Andrews was found unconscious in a shower cubicle, with investigators working on the theory that he had either suffered a fall, a heart attack or, as transpired, an aneurysm, where a bulging blood vessel breaks.

A tear in the aorta is a rare and dangerous medical condition, which can be caused by undetected high blood pressure or a birth defect.

His body is yet to be returned to his native South Africa.

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