 The planned treatment would have been a liver transplant, but doctors were concerned of the risk of organ rejection.The baby's parents were said to have put a glove used during Preca's exhumation on the infant; the child recovered to the point the doctors said an operation was not needed at all.The report received Congregation validation on 17 December 2004 in Rome and then the approval of the Vatican medical board on 23 February 2006.