Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and nocturnal epilepsy with tonic seizures

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 320-323

  Bialasiewicz, Piotr ^a   Nowak, Dariusz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Pure sleep tonic epilepsy; Sleep apnea

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM;

ADULT; APNEA ATTACK; APNEA MONITORING; ARTICLE; BEDTIME DOSAGE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MYOTONIA; NOCTURNAL SEIZURE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REMISSION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; TONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 76749161461     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2009.0277     Document Type: Article

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