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Paediatric narcolepsy: a review of diagnosis and management
- Source :
- Archives of Disease in Childhood. 107:7-11
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2021.
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Abstract
- Narcolepsy is a chronic disabling neurological sleep disorder that requires lifelong treatment. We have outlined the clinical features of narcolepsy, the assessment and diagnosis process and have summarised the existing treatment options for children and adolescents with narcolepsy. In the future, the approach to management of paediatric narcolepsy should ideally be in a multidisciplinary setting, involving specialists in sleep medicine, sleep physiology, neurologists and psychologists/psychiatrists. A multidisciplinary approach will help to manage the potential impact of narcolepsy on children and adolescents who are in a stage of their life that is critical to their physical, emotional and social development and their academic attainment.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Polysomnography
Sleep medicine
03 medical and health sciences
Cataplexy
0302 clinical medicine
Multidisciplinary approach
Child and adolescent psychiatry
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Child
Psychiatry
Exercise
Narcolepsy
Patient Care Team
Potential impact
Sleep disorder
business.industry
Wakefulness-Promoting Agents
medicine.disease
Actigraphy
Sleep Aids, Pharmaceutical
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Existing Treatment
Central Nervous System Stimulants
Sleep
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Adolescent health
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14682044 and 00039888
- Volume :
- 107
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6435aee847f6cc0a06621e2b88e0c4d1
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-320671