US Secretary of State John Kerry's wife has been admitted to hospital in a critical condition. Source: AAP
TERESA Heinz Kerry, the wife of US Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, was hospitalised in a critical but stable condition on Monday.
This followed a day after showing symptoms consistent with a seizure, a person in close contact with the family said.
Heinz Kerry was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Sunday night after doctors at a hospital on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island stabilised her, said Glen Johnson, a spokesman for Kerry.
The secretary of state was with his 74-year-old wife as an ambulance first transported her to the island hospital, and also during her transfer to the Boston facility.
A spokesman for Nantucket Cottage Hospital said Heinz Kerry arrived in critical condition, although doctors were able to stabilise her.
Family members saw her exhibiting symptoms consistent with some sort of seizure, said the person in contact with the family, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorised to speak publicly about Heinz Kerry's condition.
Heinz Kerry was being evaluated by physicians on Monday morning, the person said.
Doctors treated Heinz Kerry for breast cancer in late 2009.
On Sunday, shortly after 3.30 pm, emergency officials on Nantucket got a call requesting medical aid at a home on Hulbert Avenue and dispatched an ambulance there, Nantucket Police Lt Jerry Adams said.
Online records show the property is connected to Heinz Kerry's family.
Heinz Kerry is the widow of former US Senator John Heinz and heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune.
Heinz died in April 1991 when a helicopter collided with a plane over a schoolyard in Merion, Pa. The senator was among seven people, including two children, who died in the crash.
Heinz Kerry and John Kerry married in 1995.
She enthusiastically participated in her husband's campaign for president in 2004 and became known for her strong opinions, sometimes attracting as much attention as the candidate.
Before Sunday's emergency, John Kerry had been at the Nantucket home since returning from a nearly two-week, around-the-world diplomatic trip to the Mideast and Southeast Asia in the pre-dawn hours of July 3.
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