United States President Joe Biden stands “in a position” to “successfully fulfill its obligations”, as indicated by his doctor after the president has undergone his annual physical examination.
Biden visited Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, the day before his 79th birthday. to have a colonoscopy and have a routine exam. The president’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, has subsequently indicated that Biden remains “healthy and vigorous” to carry out their tasks, according to a report published by the White House.
In addition, tests carried out on the US president have determined that have arthritis in your spine and “moderate to severe” damage from normal wear and tear due to his age. This, according to the doctor, does not require specific treatment as it is not too serious and justifies the stiffness in his walk.
“A detailed neurological examination has been reassuring,” detailed O’Connor, who stated that studies have ruled out evidence of cerebrovascular damage or diseases such as Parkinson’s, as published by the US network ‘CNN’.
Secondly, the president has hiatal hernia, which causes reflux and could explain his more frequent clearing of the throat, his doctor has said. O’Connor has also referred to the health history of the president, whose most important medical event was a brain aneurysm in 1988, when he was serving in the Senate.
During surgery, doctors found a second aneurysm that did not bleed, and which they also treated, he added. While he was in the hospital after that procedure, Biden suffered a deep vein thrombosis and a pulmonary embolism, which involved inserting an “inferior vena cava filter,” which would prevent future blood clots from reaching the heart and lungs, and he was treated with an oral anticoagulant for several months.
To the president too had his gallbladder removed in 2003, according to his doctor, who has targeted multiple surgeries and physical treatments for orthopedic injuries and sports medicine, while the president has also faced several skin cancer injuries.
Biden, the oldest person ever elected to the positionHe said after leaving the tests that he felt “good” and claimed to have “a great physical examination” and “a great vote in the House of Representatives”, in reference to the approval of the extraordinary item of social spending.
In addition to the routine examination, the president has undergone to anesthesia for a colonoscopy during which the doctors they have removed a benign polyp. This process has forced briefly transfer power to Vice President Kamala Harris.
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