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Doctors are cared that Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan who was severely beaten outside the Los Angeles Dodger Stadium in late March, is accumulating fluid in his brain, along to physicians and his family's website.

The family website previously talked about likely surgery putting a shunt in Stow's cranium, but no such surgery has been scheduled, negotiator Frank Toscano of the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center told CNN on Friday.

For now, physicians have opted apt remedy a "puny" head fluid collection with medication, hospital spokeswoman Rosa Saca told CNN in written remarks.

"There was dispute within the therapeutic team of the probability of having braat all times on Thursday alternatively Friday due to slight fluid establish up shown in a CT scan," Saca said Friday. "However the consensus of the team as of yesterday was to clutch off on this meantime additional amounts were taken (medicine).

"Another measure is to start slowly removing the anti-seizure medicine that he has been on. These are not the same medications that he was on to keep him in a medically induced coma," Saca said.

"He continues to be monitored closely because signs of brain movement, including anybody seizures."

The family said they met with the brain neurologist and Stow's surgeon earlier this week, and "either agree namely Bryan namely not responding to provocation for many as he ought be," the website said.

On Wednesday, "it was determined to begin lowering the 8 medications he is above. The main objective is to reserve Bryan from experiencing major seizures," the family said.

"He has been having seizure spikes but the physicians cannot keep 'chasing' those and still anticipate to attempt to check his responses," the family website said. "So repeatedly we await ... and pray."

Stow, 42, remains in a coma in critical condition, Toscano said.

Authorities said Stow suffered severe head injuries in an unprovoked beating in a parking lot outside Dodger Stadium later a March 31 Dodgers-Giants baseball game, the season key for both crews.

Two men allegedly reached him in the parking lot and began hitting and punching him while screaming profanities almost the Giants, police said.

The attackers fled in a light-colored, four-door automobile pedaled along a woman with a youth boy inside, authorities said. Police unlocked composite sketches of the suspects, who they said were from 18 to 25 years antique. Officials are offering a $100,000 reward for message guiding to catches and convictions.

Stow, a father of 2, is a paramedic who voyaged from Santa Cruz, California, to make his first-ever visit to Dodgers Stadium. He went to the game with friends in celebration of the Giants World Series victory final season, a respective said.