Trump reveals that the first lady is under doctors' orders not to fly for a month

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6. Physicians cast a bit of doubt on this explanation:

https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2018-06-08/trump-says-first-lady-had-4-hour-operation

Doctors not involved in Mrs. Trump's care but familiar with the procedure said embolization most likely was used to remove a type of noncancerous kidney tumor called an angiomylipoma. Embolization is a minimally invasive procedure in which doctors snake a catheter into blood vessels of the kidney to find the right one that is feeding the tumor so they can block the flow of blood to the growth.

Dr. Lambros Stamatakis of MedStar Washington Hospital Center said embolization can take hours because of the time needed to find the right blood vessel. Trump's four-hour estimate could cover when his wife was wheeled off to receive anesthesia and time in the recovery room after she came to, Stamatakis said.

He said a procedure that can last a couple of hours on a "normal" patient could run longer on a VIP patient because doctors "may take a couple extra hours to make sure everything is as perfect as it possibly can be."

Stamatakis added that five days in the hospital may have been because the first lady was in a government hospital.

"The issue about flying, that is completely and utterly arbitrary," he said. Typically doctors might want a patient to stay nearby, rather than taking a far-away trip, in case they need follow-up care. But he said there's seldom a reason for a patient to avoid flying if the patient has left the hospital with no problems.