The clinical spectrum of childhood narcolepsy.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2017.04.003
Abstract: Narcolepsy type 1 is a life-long, severe, multifaceted disease often arising in childhood or adolescence. Beyond the classical symptoms (excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hallucinations, sleep paralysis and nocturnal fragmented sleep), metabolic, endocrinological, psychiatric and psychosocial… read more here.
Keywords: medicine; spectrum childhood; childhood; clinical spectrum ... See more keywords
Factors Influencing Time to Diagnosis in Childhood Narcolepsy Type 1
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DOI: 10.1177/0883073819836548
Abstract: Objective: To study the variables impacting on time from symptom onset to diagnosis in childhood narcolepsy, including presence of cataplexy, onset in infancy, administration of the H1N1 Pandemrix vaccine, and date of diagnosis following the… read more here.
Keywords: neurology; diagnosis; time; childhood narcolepsy ... See more keywords
Better biomarkers for childhood narcolepsy-cataplexy
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DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000008083
Abstract: Narcolepsy is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and a tetrad of sleep attacks, cataplexy, hypnogogic/hypnopompic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis.1 In addition, fragmented sleep is also present in up to 90% of persons. The prevalence of… read more here.
Keywords: narcolepsy cataplexy; childhood narcolepsy; biomarkers childhood; better biomarkers ... See more keywords