Oliver, the two and a half year old that has a brain tumor and that arrived this Wednesday at Barcelona from Cancun (Mexico) to be operated on by a medical team from the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, in Esplugues de Llobregat will be subjected this Friday, October 28 to a first intervention to implant a peritoneal ventricular shunt valve to treat hydrocephalus with which to be able control intracranial hypertension.
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This has been reported by the health center in a statement in which it highlights that a second intervention, once the patient is prepared to face it “predictably at the end of next week”, in which it will be removed “partially or totally andvery aggressive brainstem tumor that it presents”. “Subsequently, the tumor will be analyzed in order to design the most appropriate oncological treatment”, Sant Joan de Déu highlighted.
The little one is being treated with corticosteroids, rehydration and nutrition “to reduce the extreme fragility that he presented at the time of admission,” reports the center.