Maryland Sen. Van Hollen released from hospital after stroke – ABC17NEWS

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN

Sen. Chris Van Hollen mentioned Sunday he’s been launched from the hospital after struggling a “minor stroke” final week.

“It’s nice to be again dwelling after an extended week. I’m grateful for the beneficiant outpouring of help from everybody and the devoted care I acquired from the crew at GW,” the Maryland Democrat tweeted.

The lawmaker was admitted to George Washington College Hospital after he had been “experiencing lightheadedness and acute neck ache” whereas delivering a speech in his dwelling state, based on a earlier assertion. He mentioned within the assertion on the time he had sought medical assist upon returning dwelling at a physician’s advice.

Van Hollen, who’s up for reelection this 12 months, mentioned his medical doctors informed him “there aren’t any long-term results or injury because of this incident.”

His hospitalization served as one other reminder of Democrats’ skinny majority within the 50-50 Senate, the place they can not afford to lose any votes.

Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico returned to work in March after struggling a stroke earlier this 12 months.

Earlier Sunday, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for the commonwealth’s open Senate seat, was launched from the hospital 9 days after he checked in and was discovered to have suffered a stroke.

Fetterman gained his Democratic Senate major on Tuesday whereas within the hospital in Lancaster and underwent a virtually three-hour surgical procedure the identical day to implant a defibrillator.

Strokes are sometimes recognized by a sudden, extreme headache, imaginative and prescient issues in a single or each eyes, hassle strolling, paralysis or numbness within the face or limbs, and hassle talking or understanding others, based on the Mayo Clinic.

Whereas strokes are a number one explanation for demise in the US and may trigger disabilities, they’re treatable, based on the US Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.

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CNN’s Eva McKend and Madeline Holcombe contributed to this report.