Biographer interview carrying Dr Schwarzstein's treatment figures (via Tribuna)

Secondary reporting

Biographer interview carrying Dr Schwarzstein's treatment figures (via Tribuna)

Tribuna

Partially retrievedenNot marked independent

Supports

Unsupported claim audit: The treatment cost approximately $35,000 in total and involved two injections a day.
Unsupported claim audit: Steroids or doping helped Messi.
Growth-hormone deficiency diagnosed; first consultation with Dr Diego Schwarzstein, January 1997
Cost of the growth-hormone treatment — best-attributed figure and the documented drift in the reported figures

Also carries: "The Catalan club covered part of the expenses, but 70% of the treatment had already been completed in Argentina before they left", and the figure of approximately 1,400 injections over a stated "more than three years"/"four years". Excerpts are recorded as reproduced in English in the Phase 1 addendum. Marked NOT independent: common-source with the other treating-physician accounts.