you, a week. no. it certainly doesn t change the interpretation of benign and the procedure itself. so no. i think they are probably just being overly cautious as you can imagine that they would be. and any time there is something with any sort of vascular procedure it s absolutely appropriate to monitor the patient for any collisions. we don t hear about people we hear serious thing to do with kidneys. we don t hear about things that are more routine. is this something you have heard of before? is it relatively common? oh, yeah. yeah. not uncommon. not uncommon at all. okay. so i just want to bring you up to speed with what you are reporting. according to the white house, first lady melania trump underwent something called an embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition. the white house is saying the procedure was successful, there were no communications.
was successful and there were no complications. to us non-medical people when we hear benign we think that s good. always. absolutely always. this is something that in general, hopefully if it was, you know, something a vascular malformation, as i mentioned, depending on where they are located they tend to not be life threatening. and the procedure itself is minimally invasive. obviously she was treated and discharged and should do absolutely just fine. hopefully we will get more specific information so we don t need to speculate. but this is not something i could imagine at all would have long term consequences for her. they are saying she is going the remain in hospital for the duration of the week. she s going to remain at walter reed for the remainder of the week. for observation. for observation, just to make sure all is okay. i m sorry. i thought she had been treated and released. does that mean anything to
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the nation is very concerned about the first lady. i want to bring in dr. john torrez. nbc news medical correspondent. make sense of this. that medical speech to us who are not in the medical field we don t know what that procedure is. benign is usually a tumor or a cyst but not a cancerous tumor that will spread outside of the kidney. embolization, there are two case ways to do it. one is opening up the body to get to the kidney. nowadays they use embolization, they thread up to the kidney from a artery and set something in there to top blood flow to the cyst. is it common? it is common. it s something surgeos have been doing for years. we don t often hear of people
having week-long stays in the hospital. what do you make of that? that s the confusing part. they talk about the empolization which is again a procedure people recover quickly from. a benign kidney condition but then a week this the hospital. that s an excessive amount of time. unlike others, she is the first lady of the united states. they want to keep a close eye on her. that might be part of what s going on. thank you. the senate s top democrat is criticizing president trump for vowing to help save jobs at a china telecommunications giant less than a monday after his administration banned u.s. companies from doing business with it. all of a sudden, last night, out of the clear blue, the president said that he was going to try and solve this problem to help china restore jobs. american jobs first, mr. president. i think your tough policies on china are correct but it has to be walking the walk not just