Polysomnography Findings and Sleep Disorders in Children With Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

Patients with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) experience bouts of hemiplegia and other paroxysmal spells that resolve during sleep. Patients often have multiple comorbidities that could negatively affect sleep, yet sleep quality and sleep pathology in AHC are not well characterized. This study aimed to report sleep data from both polysomnography (PSG) and clinical evaluations in children with AHC.

Methods

We analyzed nocturnal PSG and clinical sleep evaluation results of a cohort of 22 consecutive pediatric patients with AHC who were seen in our AHC multidisciplinary clinic and who underwent evaluations according to our comprehensive AHC clinical pathway. This pathway includes, regardless of presenting symptoms, baseline PSG and evaluation by a boa

SUBMITTER: Kansagra S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6329557 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature