Another doctor, however, said Mrs. Trump was probably being kept in the hospital longer because of her position. The White House did not explain what led Mrs. Trump to seek treatment or whether the “benign kidney condition” meant she had a benign tumor or something else. Dr. Joseph A. Vassalotti, the chief medical officer at the National Kidney Foundation, said his guess was that Mrs. Trump had either a benign tumor known as an angiomyolipoma or a bleeding cyst. “It sounds like it was a benign tumor,” he said. “My list of benign conditions that you’d embolize is pretty short,” he said.

Source: New York Times May 14, 2018 19:26 UTC