Trump, 79, Had Emergency Heart Tests Because of Swollen Legs
www.thedailybeast.com
Images of the president’s swollen ankles and bruised hand have raised questions.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday that President Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency.

  • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    1 day ago

    While that’s one part, they had to say something because of that picture of his legs.

    CVI can cause swelling like that and is sort of treatable, but at his age another common cause of that ankle edema is late stage heart failure. As in “probably wouldn’t last term” late stage. And that rumour spreading would cause him major issues, like people spending more money on Vance than him.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
      13·
      1 day ago

      Congestive Heart Failure is super scary, but survivable. Shit, I did it. In my case it was caused by an irregular heart beat following open heart surgery.

      My fluid retention was all in my chest though, not my legs. I couldn’t lay down because it felt like I was drowning. (Because, thanks to the fluid, I was drowning.)

      They pulled 4 liters of fluid off me every day for 7 days, then ran an electrocardioversion to fix the heart beat.

      For those at home:

      4 liters of fluid:

      Electrocardioversion:

      https://youtu.be/3nREFp_pU0o