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President has arrived here at walter reed. we also know that the traffic and this busy thoroughfare outside of washington, d.c. in bethesda has been restored. so the president apparently inside of the hospital here to meet and greet his wife melania who underwent that procedure earlier today, wolf. >> joe johns we'll get back to you. and dr. bernstein, the vice president just tweeted this. second lady and i are relieved our dear friend flotous medical procedure is -- is successful and are praying for her swift recovery. >> and the procedure is a catheterization where they threat a catheter int...

Cohesive than we've seen it. >> and doctor bernstein, every surgery has a complication and we wish her a speedy recovery but the doctors say there are potential side effects or some procedures -- but go ahead and explain and -- while you're talking the president boarding marine one moments ago. he's already on the way to bethesda medical center. but here he is leaving the south lawn of the white house. what are the potential complications? >> so as sanjay alluded to, what they did is they threaded a little catheter into a blood vessel. so the axis so the blood vessel there is a chance for blee...

She's extremely mysterious to people still. clearly the operation of whatever the procedure was today, she wanted to keep close to the vest. >> want you to stand by for a moment and bring in our chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta and dr. gregory bernstein and former military physician and our contributor and kate anderson brower. sanjay, she'll be in the hospital for the rest of the week. it sounds pretty serious, if you could be spending all of that time in the hospital? >> yeah, i think that is worth pointing out. i don't know if this is because she's the first lady or if this is becau...

Flow it will cause it to storm to shrink and prevent it from bleeding down the road. preventing a complication like that. so this is what an embolization proceed su-- procedure is. it could be associated with pain and there is a concern splieomes of infection. and you are not looking at the mass, this isn't a surgery so not removing the mass and looking at it. you're basically just trying to stop the blood flow to it. >> and what are the -- dr. bernstein, the normal conditions that would lead a patient and the urologist to conclude this kind of procedure is necessary, what are the symptoms to ...