Refractory Insomnia in an Adolescent with Total Blindness

We present a totally blind adolescent with refractory insomnia due to a combination of Non-24 hour sleep-wake disorder and restless leg syndrome that was successfully treated with tasimelteon, iron replacement, and gabapentin. To our knowledge, this is the first published report of treatment of N24...

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Autores principales: Tubbs, Andrew S., Grandner, Michael A., Combs, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: YJBM 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6585511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31249480
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description We present a totally blind adolescent with refractory insomnia due to a combination of Non-24 hour sleep-wake disorder and restless leg syndrome that was successfully treated with tasimelteon, iron replacement, and gabapentin. To our knowledge, this is the first published report of treatment of N24 with tasimelteon in an adolescent. In addition, this case highlights the importance of recognizing and treating multifactorial causes of insomnia.
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spelling pubmed-65855112019-06-27 Refractory Insomnia in an Adolescent with Total Blindness Tubbs, Andrew S. Grandner, Michael A. Combs, Daniel Yale J Biol Med Case Report We present a totally blind adolescent with refractory insomnia due to a combination of Non-24 hour sleep-wake disorder and restless leg syndrome that was successfully treated with tasimelteon, iron replacement, and gabapentin. To our knowledge, this is the first published report of treatment of N24 with tasimelteon in an adolescent. In addition, this case highlights the importance of recognizing and treating multifactorial causes of insomnia. YJBM 2019-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6585511/ /pubmed/31249480 Text en Copyright ©2019, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
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title_short Refractory Insomnia in an Adolescent with Total Blindness
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