Ruth Bader Ginsburg Resting Comfortably In New York City Hospital After Non-Surgical Procedure
NEW YORK (CNN/WJZ) -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is resting comfortably in a New York City hospital after undergoing a medical procedure to replace a bile duct stent that was originally placed last year, according to the court.
"Justice Ginsburg underwent a minimally invasive non-surgical procedure today at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City to revise a bile duct stent that was originally placed at Sloan Kettering in August 2019," a statement from the court read Wednesday evening.
"According to her doctors, stent revisions are common occurrences and the procedure, performed using endoscopy and medical imaging guidance, was done to minimize the risk of future infection. The Justice is resting comfortably and expects to be released from the hospital by the end of the week."
The hospital trip comes a little less than two weeks after she announced her cancer had returned. It's her second trip to a hospital this month.
Justice Ginsburg was hospitalized at Johns Hopkins earlier this month.
She underwent an endoscopic procedure at Johns Hopkins to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August, according to officials.
Ginsburg was also hospitalized at Johns Hopkins in May after undergoing treatment for a gallbladder condition.
Ginsburg has remained an active justice despite recent health complications.
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