Little Oliver, transferred from Mexico to be treated for a brain tumorwill undergo a first intervention tomorrow to control hydrocephalus (accumulation of fluid in the brain) and until the end of next week he will not undergo surgery to remove the tumor, as reported today by the Sant Joan de Déu hospital, which attends to the little one
The Barcelona center (it is in Esplugues) has released a statement before the echo that the child’s case has had. The doctors have explained that since he arrived at the hospital yesterday, tests have been done, he has been treated with corticosteroids, rehydrated and administered nutrition to reduce the “extreme fragility that he presented at the time of admission”.
Tomorrow they will implant a peritoneal ventricular shunt valve to treat his hydrocephalus and control intracranial hypertension, which in Mexico has already affected his basic functions.
Oliver, in an image that his father made public days ago on social networks
According to the hospital, a second intervention, “once the patient is prepared to face it” will be carried out, foreseeably at the end of next week. It will be to partially or totally remove the tumor suffered by the little one, which the Barcelona doctors confirm is “very aggressive” and located in the brain stem.
After surgery, doctors will analyze the tumor “to design the most appropriate cancer treatment,” according to the health center. The doctors have met this morning with the little boy’s parents, Alejandro and Lena, so that they know how the pathology evolves and jointly decide on the treatment.
Oliver’s casetwo and a half years old It has had a lot of echo in the last week, after the Romero family made it public on social networks to ask for financial help to pay for their medical care.
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The family is originally from Malaga, but a year and a half ago they moved to Playa del Carmen (Mexico), where the father works as a diving instructor, although he has temporarily closed his business to accompany his son during his hospitalization.
On the 13th, the parents took the boy to the emergency room in Mexico because he could barely eat or move. Doctors diagnosed him with a tumor next to his brainstem and hydrocephalus (accumulation of fluid in the brain) that affected his basic functions. They gave him a prognosis of two or three weeks to live if he did not have surgery. On day 19, the little boy was drained to reduce the effects of hydrocephalus, which allowed him to recover some of his functions.
But the family has explained that they did not get guarantees that the child could be operated on in the Mexican public health system, and less so in the short term. Nor could he afford an operation in private health, hence they asked for financial help. The relatives consulted different specialists and some saw the surgery as very complex. Several recommended that they go to the Sant Joan de Déu hospital, which they did through a family friend who had worked there. The Esplugues de Llobregat hospital agreed to treat the patient and the parents decided to transfer the child to Spain.
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They were able to do so thanks to the fact that a donor who wants to remain anonymous, a businessman, offered to pay for the trip (almost 200,000 euros) in a medicalized plane. After several problems to fly, the boy arrived, with his mother, yesterday morning in Barcelona. He was hospitalized and the doctors have carried out various tests to confirm the diagnosis and see what treatment would be the most appropriate.
Sant Joan de Déu is a private hospital, arranged with the Catalan public health network, and Oliver’s care will be provided by public health. Throughout the year, the hospital attends to various complex cases sent to it by other centers throughout Spain.
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