Role of continuous positive airway pressure therapy on the pathogenesis of sleep-related frontal lobe epilepsy in a child with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 124-128

  Miano, Silvia ^a   Pelliccia, Andrea ^a   Evangelisti, Melania ^a   Pagani, Jacopo ^a   Villa, Maria Pia ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cyclic alternating pattern; Epilepsy; Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; TOPIRAMATE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LOW CALORY DIET; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; NOCTURNAL SEIZURE; NONREM SLEEP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP PATTERN; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PERIODICITY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 37449016410     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073807308690     Document Type: Article

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