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Bill Clinton returns home after five days in hospital

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Former President Bill Clinton returned home on Sunday after five days of hospital treatment for a urinary tract infection that spread to his bloodstream.

At around 8 a.m. Sunday, Clinton, 75, walked down the steps of the UCI Medical Center and into a waiting vehicle, accompanied by former First Lady Hillary Clinton.

“President Clinton was discharged from UC Irvine Medical Center today. His fever and white blood cell count are normalized and he will return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics,” said Dr. Alpesh Amin, executive director of hospital medicine at UC Irvine Health, who was overseeing the team of doctors treating Clinton.

Clinton was transferred to the intensive care unit of the hospital on Tuesday night. Officials stated that he was treated in the ICU more for privacy than because of the nature of his condition.

Clinton was in the Southland to attend charitable events on behalf of his foundation.

“President Clinton was taken to UC Irvine Medical Center and diagnosed with an infection,” Amin and Dr. Lisa Bardack said in a joint statement Thursday.

“He was admitted to the hospital for close monitoring and administered IV antibiotics and fluids. He remains at the hospital for continuous monitoring.

“After two days of treatment, his white blood cell count is trending down and he is responding to antibiotics well. The California-based medical team has been in constant communication with the president’s New York-based medical team, including his cardiologist.”

Dr. David Agus, a professor of medicine at USC Keck School of Medicine and a CBS News medical contributor, said he spoke with Clinton’s doctors on Friday morning, who stated the former president felt ill while attending a foundation fundraiser, experiencing nausea and vomiting. He was rushed to the hospital, where medics performed a series of tests and discovered the bacteria E.Coli in his urine, according to Agus, who spoke to CBS News on Friday morning.

The former president underwent quadruple bypass surgery in 2004. He had a pair of stents implanted in 2010 to open a congested coronary artery.

Saturday morning, Hillary Clinton paid a visit to her husband in the hospital. The former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate was also seen at the hospital on Thursday night.

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