Bill Clinton Moving Around, Likely To Be Out Of Hospital Today

[jefferson_dem]

Bill Clinton Moving Around, Likely To Be Out Of Hospital Today
6:15 am

February 12, 2010

By Mark Memmott

Former president Bill Clinton "is already moving around and in good spirits after yesterday's heart procedure, in which he had a blocked artery fixed," NPR's Robert Smith reports.

It's likely the 63-year-old Clinton will be released later today, Robert adds. Doctors placed two stents into one of his arteries.

Cardiologist Allan Schwartz, NPR.org reports, said the former president had been feeling repeated discomfort in his chest, and tests showed that one of the bypasses from his 2004 quadruple bypass surgery was completely blocked. There was no sign Clinton had suffered a heart attack, and the new blockage was not a result of his diet, Schwartz said. The doctor said Clinton could return to work Monday.

"The procedure went very smoothly," Schwartz said, describing Clinton's prognosis as excellent. The former president is at New York Presbyterian Hospital's campus at Columbia University.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/02/bill_clinton_heart_stent.html

[DFW]

1. Been there, done that. If it goes well, you're out in 2 days.

It's amazing to be there on the operating table while some guy if fiddling around inside your heart
and putting bits of metal in strategic places here and there, but if they go in well, and there's no
complication with the healing of the vein they have to puncture to get in there, then you are indeed
out and about within 2 days of the procedure. They did mine on a Thursday, kept me Friday to make sure
the wound healed, and let me go back on Saturday.

[Jennicut]

2. Good the hear, hope he makes a full recovery.