Delayed diagnosis, range of severity, and multiple sleep comorbidities: A clinical and polysomnographic analysis of 100 patients of the innsbruck narcolepsy cohort

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 805-812

  Frauscher, Birgit ^a   Ehrmann, Laura ^a   Mitterling, Thomas ^a   Gabelia, David ^a   Gschliesser, Viola ^a   Brandauer, Elisabeth ^a   Poewe, Werner ^a   Högl, Birgit ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cohort; Diagnosis; Gender; Hypersomnia; Hypocretin; Polysomnography; Sleep paralysis

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; METHYLPHENIDATE; MODAFINIL; OXYBATE SODIUM; PROTRIPTYLINE; REBOXETINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; CATAPLEXY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HYPNAGOGIC HALLUCINATION; INSOMNIA; LIKERT SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NARCOLEPSY; ONSET AGE; PARASOMNIA; PERIODIC LIMB MOVEMENT DISORDER; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

COHORT; DIAGNOSIS; GENDER; HYPERSOMNIA; HYPOCRETIN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP PARALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CATAPLEXY; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOLEPSY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SLEEP DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888252514     PISSN: 15509389     EISSN: 15509397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.2926     Document Type: Article

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