Sleep apnea associated with floppy epiglottis in adult-onset Alexander disease: A case report

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1098-1100

  Ishikawa, Masanori ^a   Shimohata, Takayoshi ^a   Ishihara, Tomohiko ^a   Nakayama, Hideaki ^b   Tomita, Masahiko ^b   Nishizawa, Masatoyo ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LEUCINE; PROLINE; PROPOFOL; URAPIDIL;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALEXANDER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; AROUSAL; ATAXIA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; EPIGLOTTIS; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FLOPPY EPIGLOTTIS; GLOTTIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; LETTER; LIMB; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MYOCLONUS; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOCTURNAL INSPIRATORY STRIDOR; NONREM SLEEP; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PALATABILITY; PALATE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPASTICITY; STRIDOR; THROAT DISEASE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRUNK; URINE INCONTINENCE; WAKEFULNESS; COMPLICATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES;

ADULT; ALEXANDER DISEASE; EPIGLOTTIS; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES;

EID: 77953530990     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23042     Document Type: Letter

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