Usher's wife leaves hospital

The wife of R&B singer Usher was released from a hospital in Brazil today after spending 11 days recovering from a cardiac arrest she suffered shortly before undergoing plastic surgery.

Tameka Raymond left the Sirio-Libanes Hospital in Sao Paulo on Monday night, said a hospital spokeswoman.

She declined to release any details of Raymond’s treatment at the family’s request. Representatives for Usher had no immediate comment.

Ellen Dastry, a spokeswoman for the doctor who was to perform the operation, said last week that Raymond suffered a cardiac arrest while being anesthetised ahead of a “simple liposuction” at Sao Paulo’s Sao Rafael Hospital.

Raymond was revived in less than a minute with heart massage, and was placed in an induced coma before being taken to the intensive care unit, said Dastry, spokeswoman for plastic surgeon Silvio Sterman.

She was then transferred to the Sirio-Libanes Hospital to recover.

Usher was supposed to perform at music mogul Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party, but backed out to come to Brazil to be with his wife.

The 30-year-old R&B star and his wife were married in August 2007. They have two sons, two-year-old Usher Raymond V and two-month-old Naveid Ely Raymond.