Sen. Biden’s Doctors Find Blood Clot in Lung, See No Danger

Sen. Joseph R. Biden’s doctors discovered a blood clot in a lung, but a hospital spokesman said the Delaware Democrat is in no danger, a spokesman at Walter Reed Army Medical Center said today.

Hospital spokesman Peter Esker said that the clot is dissolving but that doctors will use either anti-coagulant drugs or a surgical procedure in an attempt to prevent future clots. The 45-year-old Senate Judiciary Committee chairman is expected to be hospitalized for a week before returning home to continue recuperating from Feb. 12 surgery to repair an aneurysm in an artery supplying blood to the brain.

A second aneurysm was discovered in an artery on the other side of Biden’s brain, and the senator faces further surgery in several months. Biden’s current hospitalization was unrelated to the second aneurysm, Esker said.

The spokesman added that Biden “is in good spirits and his wife, Jill, is with him.”