Story highlights First lady Melania Trump had an embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney conditionKidneys typically filter a person's blood, about 200 quarts of it each day(CNN) First lady Melania Trump, 48, underwent an embolization procedure Monday morning at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to treat a benign kidney condition, according to a statement issued by the White House. The White House did not elaborate on the condition or the procedure. "When I hear benign kidney condition, most of the time, you're thinking a cyst and a cyst is basically a fluid-filled structure that can sometimes develop on top of the kidney, or within the kidney," CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said. These are the kind of tumors, you worry they could bleed because they have a lot of blood vessels in them. One of the ways to treat them is to embolize them, to block the blood flow to that part of the kidney," Gupta said.

Source: CNN May 14, 2018 21:45 UTC