%0 Journal Article
%T An Adolescent with Kleine-levin Syndrome: A Case Report
%A Mitra Hakim shooshtary
%A Mirfarhad Ghalebandi
%A Pezhman Ghaem-Maghamy
%J Iranian Journal of Psychiatry
%D 2007
%I Tehran University of Medical Sciences
%X Kleine-levin syndrome is characterized as a periodic hypersomnia crisis as well as dietary and variable significant psychic symptoms. This report describes the finding on an evaluation of a 15- year- old girl with KLS. She had amnesia to her episodes. All episodes were correlated with menstrual period.Polysomnographic finding of this patient was normal with 5 sleep cycles in sleep architecture and sleep efficiency of 99%. Decreasing in stage I, increasing of stage III and IV and decreasing in REM sleep was notable. Dextroamphetamin was given to the patient in order to decrease sleepiness.Kleine-levin syndrome should be considered in patients with periodic hypersomnia.
%K Adolescent
%K Hypersomnia
%K Sleep disorders
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