Bill Clinton Is Hospitalized for Infection, Aide Says

U.S.|Bill Clinton Is Hospitalized for Infection, Aide Says

Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized with a “non-Covid-related infection,” a spokesperson said connected Thursday.

The spokesman, Angel Ureña, did not specify successful a connection on Twitter what benignant of corruption Mr. Clinton, 75, had. He said the erstwhile president had been admitted connected Tuesday evening to UCI Medical Center successful Orange, Calif.

“He is connected the mend, successful bully spirits and is incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses, and unit providing him with fantabulous care,” Mr. Ureña said.

An adjutant said that Mr. Clinton had a urological corruption that had developed into sepsis, though it was not considered to beryllium acute.

Mr. Clinton’s doctors, Dr. Alpesh Amin and Dr. Lisa Bardack, said successful a statement that the erstwhile president had been admitted to the infirmary for “close monitoring” and had received IV antibiotics and fluids. They said that aft 2 days of treatment, his white-blood compartment number was trending down and helium was “responding to antibiotics well.” They added that Mr. Clinton’s aesculapian squad successful California had been successful interaction with his doctors successful New York, including his cardiologist.

“He remains astatine the infirmary for continuous monitoring,” Drs. Amin and Bardack said. “We anticipation to person him spell location soon.”

In 2010, Mr. Clinton was taken to a New York infirmary aft experiencing thorax pains, and aboriginal underwent a bosom procedure. Doctors inserted 2 stents into his autochthonal coronary artery aft 1 of the bypass grafts from an cognition 5 years agone became obstructed.

In 2004, Mr. Clinton, who has a household past of bosom disease, underwent quadruple coronary bypass surgery astatine a infirmary successful New York. The four-hour open-heart process came 3 days aft tests prompted by thorax pains and shortness of enactment revealed that helium had life-threatening bosom disease.

Mr. Clinton besides has a past of tegument cancers, cysts, allergies and immoderate proceeding problems. Medical tests adjacent the extremity of his presidency successful January 2001 showed elevated levels of cholesterin and humor pressure, but thing extracurricular the kinds of aesculapian problems often associated with aging.

Jesus Jiménez contributed reporting.