Mattia Cossettini, a nine-year-old boy, died of a brain aneurysm while on holiday with his family in Marsa Alam, Egypt, an autopsy has found.
An autopsy has revealed that the nine-year-old boy who tragically died while on a family holiday in Egypt did not have a brain tumour but did have an aneurysm.
Mattia Cossettini, who lived in Tricesimo near Udine in the northern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, was in Marsa Alam with his younger brother and parents when the tragedy happened on January 5. The family, who had left for Egypt for a week-long holiday on January 2, were out on a boat when Mattia suddenly lost consciousness.
When the child came to, he complained of a severe headache, and his parents took him to the medical staff at the resort where they were staying. After diagnosing heat stroke, he was given an IV drip.
Healthy 9-year-old boy collapses in front of family and dies during boat cruise in Egypt
He was given various medications and then admitted to a ward. However, his condition worsened during the night, with vomiting, headaches and seizures, so he was taken to the emergency room. He was pronounced dead in the early morning of January 6.
Days after Mattia's death, Egypt's Ahram newspaper reported that the Red Sea Health Authority said the child had a pre-existing brain tumor that his family was unaware of, which was aggravated by pneumonia, eventually leading to complete cardiac arrest. However, an autopsy conducted in Italy has now determined that Mattia died of a hemorrhage caused by a cerebral aneurysm, according to Italian news agency Ansa.
An autopsy commissioned by the boy's parents ruled out any pre-existing conditions and confirmed that Mattia could not have survived the aneurysm, whether he was abroad or at home. The family released a statement through their lawyer, Maria Virginia Maccari: “The presence of other comorbidities has certainly been excluded.”
The lawyer added that Mattia was “very happy” during the holiday and did not show “any symptoms, not even a cold” before the tragic boat incident. She further noted: “According to the parents, the initial clinical picture was certainly underestimated; then there was an error in the report of the doctors at the Marsa Alam State General Hospital, who interpreted the CT scan without taking into account Mattia’s condition due to lack of equipment, while the doctors assessed various pathologies, including diabetes and bronchopneumonia, even citing Covid as the cause of low oxygenation, when in fact Mattia did not even have a cough.”
Little Mattia shared his father Marko’s passion for firefighting and also loved nature. Back in November, in an election address to his peers, running for the Youth Council, he said he wanted his city to be cleaner and for people to respect the environment more, emphasizing the need for “more garbage bins along the streets and sanitary bags for animals.”
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