Sharon's doctors worried that coma persists: report
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-01-13 19:30

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's doctors are worried that they have not yet been able to wake him from an induced coma after he suffered a massive stroke, an Israeli news Web site reported on Friday.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during a vote at the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, March 28, 2005. Sharon's doctors are worried that they have not yet been able to wake him from an induced coma after he suffered a massive stroke, an Israeli news Web site reported on Friday. [Reuters]

The Maariv newspaper's NRG Web site cited unnamed medical sources saying early optimism about Sharon's chances for recovery had turned to increasing concern about his condition and they were reviewing his treatment.

Sharon, 77, remained critical, and doctors were conducting a new battery of neurological tests on Friday. Doctors have been reducing his sedation to try to bring him out of a coma and assess brain damage from a January 4 stroke.