Argentine President's Surgery for Blood Clot Successful

Surgery on Tuesday to remove a blood clot from the brain of Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner was successful, a government spokesman said.

A medical report said Kirchner is progressing "favorably" after the surgery, which encountered "no complications."

She remains in an intensive care unit.

"It went very well. The president is in good spirits and is already in her room," said spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro.

Kirchner was diagnosed over the weekend with a "chronic subdural hematoma" resulting from a blow to the head sustained in a fall in mid-August.

She was hospitalized on Monday after experiencing tingling in her left arm and muscle weakness, prompting doctors to order surgery to drain the hematoma that had lodged between her brain and its outer membrane.