An Adolescent with Kleine-levin Syndrome: A Case Report
Kleine-levin syndrome is characterized as a periodic hypersomnia crisis as well as dietary and variable significant psychic symptoms. This report describes the finding on an evaluation of a 15- year- old girl with KLS. She had amnesia to her episodes. All episodes were correlated with menstrual peri...
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| author | Pezhman Ghaem-Maghamy Mirfarhad Ghalebandi Mitra Hakim shooshtary |
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| description | Kleine-levin syndrome is characterized as a periodic hypersomnia crisis as well as dietary and variable significant psychic symptoms. This report describes the finding on an evaluation of a 15- year- old girl with KLS. She had amnesia to her episodes. All episodes were correlated with menstrual period.Polysomnographic finding of this patient was normal with 5 sleep cycles in sleep architecture and sleep efficiency of 99%. Decreasing in stage I, increasing of stage III and IV and decreasing in REM sleep was notable. Dextroamphetamin was given to the patient in order to decrease sleepiness.Kleine-levin syndrome should be considered in patients with periodic hypersomnia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6f3405199f4640ca973a337a8621d5e42022-12-21T23:39:43ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesIranian Journal of Psychiatry1735-45872008-22152007-09-0123An Adolescent with Kleine-levin Syndrome: A Case ReportPezhman Ghaem-Maghamy0Mirfarhad Ghalebandi1Mitra Hakim shooshtary2Department of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Mental Health Research Center, Tehran, IranDepartment of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Mental Health Research Center, Tehran, IranDepartment of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Mental Health Research Center, Tehran, IranKleine-levin syndrome is characterized as a periodic hypersomnia crisis as well as dietary and variable significant psychic symptoms. This report describes the finding on an evaluation of a 15- year- old girl with KLS. She had amnesia to her episodes. All episodes were correlated with menstrual period.Polysomnographic finding of this patient was normal with 5 sleep cycles in sleep architecture and sleep efficiency of 99%. Decreasing in stage I, increasing of stage III and IV and decreasing in REM sleep was notable. Dextroamphetamin was given to the patient in order to decrease sleepiness.Kleine-levin syndrome should be considered in patients with periodic hypersomnia.https://ijps.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijps/article/view/451AdolescentHypersomniaSleep disorders |
| spellingShingle | Pezhman Ghaem-Maghamy Mirfarhad Ghalebandi Mitra Hakim shooshtary An Adolescent with Kleine-levin Syndrome: A Case Report Iranian Journal of Psychiatry Adolescent Hypersomnia Sleep disorders |
| title | An Adolescent with Kleine-levin Syndrome: A Case Report |
| title_full | An Adolescent with Kleine-levin Syndrome: A Case Report |
| title_fullStr | An Adolescent with Kleine-levin Syndrome: A Case Report |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Adolescent with Kleine-levin Syndrome: A Case Report |
| title_short | An Adolescent with Kleine-levin Syndrome: A Case Report |
| title_sort | adolescent with kleine levin syndrome a case report |
| topic | Adolescent Hypersomnia Sleep disorders |
| url | https://ijps.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijps/article/view/451 |
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