SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt, July 17 (UPI) -- Deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 83, has come out of a daylong coma, a hospital official in Egypt said Sunday.
Mubarak lapsed into the coma Sunday morning, CNN reported.
Mubarak lawyer Farid El Deeb informed CNN of the coma, and hospital officials in Sharm el-Sheik later confirmed it, the broadcast report said.
The hospital official, Mohamed Fathalla, told CNN, "He is now stable after suffering a coma that did not last long."
A longtime U.S. ally, Mubarak resigned Feb. 11 after 18 days of protest for reform and a new government. He was succeeded by a military council.
The former president is scheduled to be tried in August on charges of ordering police to kill protesters, which he strongly denies. If convicted, Mubarak could face the death sentence.
In a June 2010 procedure kept secret even from top aides, Mubarak underwent cancer surgery in a German hospital in which parts of Mubarak's pancreas, gall bladder and a growth on his small intestines were removed, El Deeb said.
The lawyer said Mubarak ignored his doctor's advice to get a comprehensive follow-up every four months for two years after the operation.
