George W. Bush ‘doing great’ day after surgery for blocked artery

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Former U.S. president George W. Bush watches before the start of the MLB American between the Rangers and White Sox in Arlington, Texas in this file photoBy Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) – Former President George W. Bush was recovering at his home in Dallas on Wednesday, a day after undergoing surgery for a blocked artery, a Bush spokesman said. Bush, 67, is "doing great," his spokesman Freddy Ford said, after a stent, a wire mesh coil used to prop open arteries, was placed in the former president's heart at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas on Tuesday. The blockage was discovered on Monday during Bush's annual physical at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas. His doctors recommended the stent and Bush agreed to the procedure, Ford said. …

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