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Lee's death was officially ruled the result of cerebral edema — swelling of the brain. While a normal human brain is about 3 pounds, Lee's was reportedly closer to 3½ pounds.
Researchers challenge Bruce Lee's cause of death, positing that his brain swelling was caused by low sodium due to chronic elevated water intake. Researchers challenge Bruce Lee's cause of death ...
Bruce Lee [b] (born Lee Jun-fan; [c] November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong-American martial artist, actor, filmmaker, and philosopher.He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy which was formed from Lee's experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist and Taoist philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought.
While an acute cerebral edema is widely believed to be the initial cause of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee's death in 1973, another factor which may have compounded and thereby contributed to Lee's death, was his decision to take Equagesic (a brand which combined meprobamate and aspirin). [29]
Born in San Francisco but brought up in the Asian financial hub which would make him famous, Lee died of brain edema aged 32 on July 20, 1973, just six days before the release of "Enter the Dragon ...
Lee died of cerebral edema before the film's release. At the time of his death, he had made plans to resume the filming of The Game of Death. After Lee's death, Enter the Dragon director Robert Clouse was enlisted to finish the film using two stand-ins; it was released in 1978 as Game of Death, five years after Lee's death, by Golden Harvest.
Cerebral edema is the cause of death in 5% of all patients with cerebral infarction and mortality after large ischemic strokes with cerebral edema is roughly 20 to 30% despite medical and surgical interventions. [9] [38] Cerebral edema usually occurs between the second and fifth day after onset of symptoms. [9]
“The Crow,” released in 1994, could easily have been a breakthrough role for Lee, who was just 8 when his father, action star Bruce Lee, died of brain swelling.