Misdiagnosis of menstruation-related recurrent hypersomnia as epilepsy in a patient with generalized epileptic discharges

Recurrent hypersomnias are very rare with two subtypes as Kleine–Levin syndrome and menstruation-related hypersomnia, which is very rarely encountered worldwide. Here, we report a young girl with menstruation-related recurrent hypersomnia, who was misdiagnosed as epilepsy due to co-existing generali...

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Autores principales: Benbir, Gulcin, Delil, Sakir, Karadeniz, Derya, Yeni, Naz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25878739
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.154325
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Sumario:Recurrent hypersomnias are very rare with two subtypes as Kleine–Levin syndrome and menstruation-related hypersomnia, which is very rarely encountered worldwide. Here, we report a young girl with menstruation-related recurrent hypersomnia, who was misdiagnosed as epilepsy due to co-existing generalized epileptic discharges. The importance of this comorbidity in terms of differential diagnosis of the attacks is discussed.

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