Dr. Jeffrey Berns, professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, who does not treat Trump, tells PEOPLE that her week in the hospital may not be out of the ordinary if a significant area of the kidney needed treatment.
“It would really depend on how much of the kidney tissue they were treating with this operation,” he said.
Dr. Mohamad Allaf, vice chairman of urology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, agrees that the longer stay is “somewhat atypical but not out of the question.”
“It may be just out of an abundance of caution and privacy,” he told CNN. “Certainly, staying a little longer may imply that this is a little bit more of a complex situation.”
Leading medical experts who spoke with The New York Times said they would consider a week-long hospital stay unusual in typical cases of this procedure.
“It’s like literally an outpatient procedure,” said Dr. Eleanor D. Lederer, a professor at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and past president of the American Society of Nephrology. “You go in, you have it done, you lie in bed for a while to keep the blood vessel from bleeding and then you go home.”
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