Sleep evaluation in the symptomatic episode of recurrent hypersomnia

• Authors: Eva Feketeová , Mária Tormašiová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Recurrent hypersomnia (RH) is a rare disorder characterized by episodes of hypersomnia, variously accompanied by behavioural and cognitive disturbances, compulsive eating behaviour and hypersexuality. Electrophysiologic evaluation of the sleep during symptomatic and asymptomatic periods of RH distinguishes RH from other primary sleep or mental disorders. Unique polysomnographic findings during the hypersomniac attack lasting 96 hours in a 16-year-old boy affected with primary RH are presented in this paper.

Keywords

EN

Recurrent hypersomnia; kleine-levin syndrome; multiple sleep latency test; polysomnography

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Medicine
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 346-350

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2007

online

9 - 6 - 2007

Contributors

author

Eva Feketeová

• Department of Neurology, Faculty Hospital, P.J. Šafárik University, Tr. SNP 1, 040 66, Košice, Slovak Republic

author

Mária Tormašiová

• Department of Neurology, Faculty Hospital, P.J. Šafárik University, Tr. SNP 1, 040 66, Košice, Slovak Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11536-007-0030-6