Two cases of childhood narcolepsy mimicking epileptic seizures in video-EEG/EMG
Narcolepsy is characterized by excessive sleepiness, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis, and can occur with or without cataplexy. Here, we report two children with narcolepsy presenting with cataplexy mimicking epileptic seizures as determined by long-term video-electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyography (EMG) monitoring.Case 1 was a 15-year-old girl presenting with recurrent episodes of “convulsions” and loss of consciousness, who was referred to our hospital with a diagnosis of epilepsy showing “convulsions” and “complex partial seizures”.
Source: Brain and Development - Category: Neurology Authors: Tomoe Yanagishita, Susumu Ito, Yui Ohtani, Kaoru Eto, Takashi Kanbayashi, Hirokazu Oguni, Satoru Nagata Tags: Case Report Source Type: research
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