Overview
- The White House released a memo stating that October cardiovascular and abdominal imaging at Walter Reed found no abnormalities, including no arterial narrowing limiting blood flow.
- Officials describe the testing as a routine executive physical for someone in the president’s age group and say he remains in excellent overall health.
- The memo does not specify whether the “advanced imaging” was MRI or CT, though Trump told reporters he had an MRI and said it was not a brain scan.
- Cardiologists and radiology experts argue such imaging is not standard preventive screening, contend it is typically ordered for specific concerns, and warn about incidental findings and unnecessary follow-up tests.
- A new critique notes that cardiac MRI does not show blocked arteries or overall cardiovascular risk, increasing calls to release precise details of what scans were performed and why.