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SUBMITTER: Pizza F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3859221 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pizza Fabio F Franceschini Christian C Peltola Hanna H Vandi Stefano S Finotti Elena E Ingravallo Francesca F Nobili Lino L Bruni Oliviero O Lin Ling L Edwards Mark J MJ Partinen Markku M Dauvilliers Yves Y Mignot Emmanuel E Bhatia Kailash P KP Plazzi Giuseppe G
Brain : a journal of neurology 20131018 Pt 12
Our aim was to investigate the natural evolution of cataplexy and polysomnographic features in untreated children with narcolepsy with cataplexy. To this end, clinical, polysomnographic, and cataplexy-video assessments were performed at diagnosis (mean age of 10 ± 3 and disease duration of 1 ± 1 years) and after a median follow-up of 3 years from symptom onset (mean age of 12 ± 4 years) in 21 children with narcolepsy with cataplexy and hypocretin 1 deficiency (tested in 19 subjects). Video asses ...[more]