Multiple Sleep Latency Test by Polysomnography: A Case Report

Robert Daniel Vorona; J. Catesby Ware

doi:10.1055/s-2003-43076

Sleep and Breathing, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Sleep Breath 2003; 07(3): 147-150
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-43076

CASE REPORT

Multiple Sleep Latency Test by Polysomnography: A Case Report

Robert Daniel Vorona^1,4 , J. Catesby Ware^1,2,3,4

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia
²Department of Psychiatry, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia
³Department of Otolaryngology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia
⁴Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Sleep Disorders Center, Norfolk, Virginia

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome may disguise the presence of other less common but equally important etiologies of sleepiness in patients presenting to sleep disorder specialists. In this case report the authors detail how multiple polysomnograms performed over 6 years eventually suggested that a patient had both obstructive sleep apnea and narcolepsy.

KEYWORDS

Obstructive sleep apnea - narcolepsy - polysomnogram - multiple sleep latency test

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