Former President Bill Clinton released from hospital after urological infection

 

Former President Bill Clinton was released from a Southern California  UC Irvine Medical Center. 

"His fever and white blood cells count are normalized and he will return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics. On behalf of everyone at UC Irvine Medical Center, we were honored to have treated him and will continue to monitor his progress," Dr. Alpesh N. Amin, the executive director of hospital medicine at UC Irvine Health Center, said in a statement. 

Forner President Bill Clinton was admitted Tuesday after he was diagnosed with a urological infection that had spread to his bloodstream. His wife and his daughter were by his side at UC Irvine Health Center. He and his wife in California scheduled to attend a private Clinton Foundation event on Thursday. 

Former President Clinton's doctors, Amin and Lisa Bardack, said in a statement that "after two days of treatment, his white blood cell count is trending down and he is responding to antibiotics well."

In 2004, he went though a quadruple bypass operation to reroute his blood supply to circumvent four severely clogged arteries, The New York Times reported at the time. President Bill Clinton had complained of chest pains and shortness of breath. Surgeons team found extensive signs of heart disease, with blockages in some of Clinton's arteries at well over 90 percent, The Times reported.