Savaş Tülin, Erol Ilknur, Saygı Semra, Habeşoğlu Mehmet Ali
Clinic of Pediatric Neurology, Başkent University School of Medicine Hospital, Adana, Turkey.
Clinic of Pulmonology, Başkent University School of Medicine Hospital, Adana, Turkey.
Turk Pediatri Ars. 2016 Dec 1;51(4):221-223. doi: 10.5152/TurkPediatriArs.2016.2180. eCollection 2016 Dec.
Narcolepsy is characterized by excessive sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis during the rapid eye movement period of sleep. Herein, we present a boy aged eight years who was diagnosed as having narcolepsy and cataplexy about thirteen months after his first presentation. He was admitted with symptoms of daytime sleepiness. In the follow-up, cataplexy in the form of head dropping attacks developed seven months after the first admission. The patient was investigated for different prediagnoses and was eventually diagnosed as having narcolepsy and cataplexy through polysomnography and multiple sleep latency tests thirteen months after the first presentation. He is being followed up and is under drug therapy; his symptoms have improved substantially.
发作性睡病的特征是在睡眠快速眼动期出现过度嗜睡、猝倒、入睡幻觉和睡眠瘫痪。在此，我们报告一名8岁男孩，他在首次就诊约13个月后被诊断为发作性睡病和猝倒症。他因白天嗜睡症状入院。在随访中，首次入院7个月后出现了以头部下垂发作形式的猝倒。该患者接受了不同的诊断前检查，最终在首次就诊13个月后通过多导睡眠图和多次睡眠潜伏期测试被诊断为发作性睡病和猝倒症。他正在接受随访并接受药物治疗；他的症状有了显著改善。
