"Melania Trump Hospitalized After Undergoing Procedure For ‘Benign Kidney Condition’" - Dartunorro Clark
First lady Melania Trump underwent treatment for a “benign kidney condition” Monday morning and will be hospitalized for several days, the White House said. Mrs. Trump, 48, was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, for an embolization procedure. It’s a common procedure, often done on an outpatient basis with the patient perhaps staying overnight. “In a typical situation, if embolization is not being done for a bleed, it would be overnight or same-day stay, but if someone had a bleed and that’s why they are having embolization, you might want to keep them longer,” said Ketan Badani, MD, director of the comprehensive kidney cancer program at the Mount Sinai Health System. The White House did not say why the first lady was likely to remain hospitalized for the rest of the week.
- Ketan Badani, MD, Professor, Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Vice Chairman, Urology, Director, Comprehensive Kidney Cancer Program, Mount Sinai Health System