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Clinton takes short walks in hospital Former President Clinton was taking short walks in the hallway outside his hospital room and was in good spirits Thursday following heart bypass surgery this week, his office said.
The family also said it is distributing flowers already received to other patients at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Flowers that were sent to the former president's Harlem office are being given to charitable organizations in the neighborhood.
The 58-year-old former president went to the hospital late last week after complaining of prolonged chest pain and shortness of breath. Doctors said Monday he'd had those symptoms several months. They said he had blamed them on lapses in his exercise routine and acid reflux.
Clinton was moved Wednesday from intensive care to a hospital room following his heart surgery Monday.
In bypass surgery, doctors remove one or more blood vessels from elsewhere in the body — in Clinton's case, two arteries from his chest and a vein from his leg — and attach them to arteries serving the heart, detouring around blockages. |
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