Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump recently had a medical examination after noticing “mild swelling” in his lower legs, and it was found that there was an illness in older adults that leads to blood in his veins, the white house shared on Thursday.
The press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that tests of the medical unity of the White House showed that Trump has a chronic venous insufficiency, the occurrence when petite valves in the veins, which normally facilitate to move the blood against gravity, gradually lose the ability to work properly.
Leavitt also addressed bruising on Trump’s hand, which were seen in the latest photos, which were covered by Make -up and did not fit his skin tone exactly. She said that the bruising was “consistent” with irritation from his “habitual hand filling and the employ of aspirin. Trump takes aspirin to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.
During her press conference, she said that her disclosure of Trump’s medical examination should dispel the recent speculation about the health of 79-year-old president. Nevertheless, the announcement was remarkable because the Republican President routinely secretly made fundamental facts about his health.
Trump had a comprehensive physical examination in April with more than a dozen medical specialists. The three -sided report, which was then published by the White House, did not contain a chronic venous insufficiency. At that time, Trump’s doctor Sean Barbabella found that the joints and muscles of the president had a full area of movement with normal blood flow and without swelling.
Leavitt didn’t say when Trump noticed the swelling in his lower legs for the first time. As part of the routine medical care of the President and an “abundance of caution”, she said that he had a “comprehensive exam”, which included vascular, lower extremity and ultrasound tests.
She noticed that chronic venous insufficiency is a benign disease that is common in humans over 70 years.
She said the tests showed no evidence of deep venous thrombosis, a more earnest medical disease in which a blood clot forms in one or more of the deep veins in the body, usually in the legs. There was also no evidence of an arterial illness, she said and read a letter from Barbabella.
People are often recommended to lose weight, to go for movement and to augment their legs regularly, and some can be recommended to wear compression stockings. Heavy cases over time can lead to complications, including the ulcer lulle, which are referred to as ulcer. Blood clots are a cause, but was excluded, said Leavitt.
Leavitt said that the disease did not lead to the president. She would not discuss how he treated the condition and suggested that these details would be in the doctor’s letter, which was later approved to the public. But the letter was the same as what she read and it did not contain any additional details.
Dr. Anahita Dua, a vascular surgeon at Mass General Brigham, who has never treated Trump, said there was no healing for chronic venous insufficiency.
“The vast majority of people who probably have our president, including our president, have a slight to moderate form,” said Dua.
People with the disease can reduce swelling by wearing pressure socks or stockings of medical quality to circulate the blood back into the heart, or walking through, she said.
The test, which the White House published on Thursday, included other tests in which no signs of heart failure, kidney impairments or systemic diseases were found in Trump, said Leavitt.
“The president is still with excellent health, of which I think they all testify every day,” she said reporters.
