Department of Sleep Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Sleep Research and Treatment Center Department of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA.
J Clin Sleep Med. 2014 Feb 15;10(2):203-5. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.3454.
The usual age at onset of narcolepsy with cataplexy is in the second or third decade. In cases with late onset narcolepsy with cataplexy, symptoms are usually mild with relatively less severe daytime sleepiness and less frequent cataplexy. Here we present a case of narcolepsy with cataplexy with onset of symptoms around sixty years of age. This case is unique, with severe daytime sleepiness both by subjective report as well as on objective Multiple Sleep Latency Test and having multiple cataplexy episodes in a day.
猝倒型发作性睡病的一般发病年龄在第二或第三个十年。在迟发性猝倒型发作性睡病中,症状通常较轻,日间嗜睡相对较轻,猝倒发作频率较低。在这里,我们报告了一例发作性睡病伴猝倒的病例,其症状在 60 岁左右出现。该病例具有独特性,表现为严重的日间嗜睡,既通过主观报告,也通过客观多次睡眠潜伏期试验(Multiple Sleep Latency Test)证实,并且每天有多次猝倒发作。