De Klerk, 82, his country's most recent white president, became Nobel laureate jointly with his successor, Nelson Mandela, in 1993 for overseeing its transition from apartheid rule.
He was admitted to a Cape Town hospital on Friday with pneumothorax, "an abnormal collection of air in the pleural space between the lung and the chest wall", his foundation said in a statement.
Pneumothorax is normally associated with a collapsed lung, but the foundation did not specify if that was the case.
"He underwent a successful procedure this morning and it is expected that he will be discharged from hospital some time next week," it said.
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