MOSCOW (AP) -- Doctors decided Wednesday that they don't need to operate on President Boris Yeltsin after he was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer, the Kremlin said.
Yeltsin received a "controlled gastroscopy" Wednesday morning, in which a fiber-optic thread with a tiny camera passed through his mouth into his stomach, allowing doctors to inspect the ulcer.Presidential spokesman Dmitry Yakushkin said the exam showed that Yeltsin's ulcer had "stopped bleeding, the inflammation and swelling of tissue stopped and initial signs of healing appeared," Russian news agencies said.
Doctors will continue medicinal treatment, the presidential press service announced.
Yakushkin said the president's condition was stable and that he had begun working while in the hospital.
Starting Wednesday, doctors allowed Yeltsin to get out of bed to walk around his room and work at a table, Yakushkin said.