Clinical and neurophysiological characteristics of 89 patients with narcolepsy and cataplexy from the Russian Narcolepsy Network.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

The first reports of narcolepsy with cataplexy in Russia were made by Mankovsky (The pathogenesis of narcolepsy (the case of epidemic encephalitis with cataplexy) published in the Sovremennaya psihonevrologia) in 1925. The largest series of patients (n = 110) was reported by A. Vein (doctoral thesis: Hypersomnia Syndrome) in 1964. However, until today, narcolepsy remained relatively unknown in Russia. The aim of this study is to report clinical and polysomnography (PSG)/multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) results in the Russian population and compare them with the European Narcolepsy Network (EU-NN) data (n = 1099) reported.

Methods

Eleven sleep centers from Russia agreed to participate and completed a questionnaire including 58 questions concerning demograph

SUBMITTER: Kuts A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9892735 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature