Parkinson's Disease and Narcolepsy-Like Sleep Episodes

A fifty one-year-old male patient presented with the complaint of sudden daytime sleep episodes for the last one and a half years. The patient had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease for four years and has been administered treatment of ropinirole 4 mg XL and rasagiline 1 mg tablet. The pat...

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Published in:Journal of Turkish Sleep Medicine 2016-03, Vol.3 (1), p.20
Main Authors: Yilmaz, Zahide, Sirinocak, Pinar Bekdik, Terzi, Rabia, Erdinç, Oguz Osman
Format: Article
Language:eng ; tur
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Parkinson's disease
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Summary:A fifty one-year-old male patient presented with the complaint of sudden daytime sleep episodes for the last one and a half years. The patient had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease for four years and has been administered treatment of ropinirole 4 mg XL and rasagiline 1 mg tablet. The patient reported that his complaints occurred with the addition of pramipexola 0.750 mg/day tablet. Excessive daytime sleepiness occurred as sudden sleep episodes without giving any prior signs and subsided spontaneously after which the patient felt rested. The patient was diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and hypersomnia depending on medical disease and drug side effects with polysomnography and multiple sleep latency test.
ISSN:2148-1504
DOI:10.4274/jtsm.02.2016.140