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Ginsburg 'Resting Comfortably' After Undergoing 'Common Procedure'

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Getty Images)

By    |   Wednesday, 29 July 2020 10:03 PM EDT

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is expected to be released from the hospital later this week after undergoing a minimally invasive common procedure on Wednesday, the court said on its website Wednesday.

The 87-year-old Ginsburg, the oldest justice of the nine-member court, was “resting comfortably” after having a bile duct stent — inserted in August — “revised” using endoscopy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the court said.

“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,” it said.

It was the second issue involving the stent in the past two weeks and the third medical announcement involving Ginsburg this month. Wednesday’s procedure followed a cleaning of the stent at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on July 14, after she went to the hospital complaining of fever and chills.

Three days later, Ginsburg announced she was receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, although what type was not specified. The chemotherapy, she said, was reducing lesions on her liver.

Ginsburg, one of the four noted liberal justices and appointed to the court by President Bill Clinton, had previously been treated for colon cancer, diagnosed in 1999, pancreatic cancer in 2009, lung cancer in 2018 and was treated for a tumor on her pancreas last year.

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