Former US President Bill Clinton left hospital today after undergoing a heart operation, a close friend said.

Former President Bill Clinton, who had quadruple bypass surgery more than five years ago, was taken to hospital to have a clogged heart artery opened after suffering discomfort in his chest.

BILL CLINTON is off a ventilator and recovering in hospital today after major surgery to prevent a heart attack.

Former US President Bill Clinton was described as doing well today, breathing on his own as he recovers from an operation to relieve arteries so severely clogged that they had posed imminent danger of a major heart attack.

Former US president Bill Clinton is recovering today from a quadruple heart bypass operation to relieve severely clogged arteries that doctors said had put him in danger of an imminent major heart attack.