PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | sleep disorder |
| Phenotype | C0014544|epilepsy |
| Sentences | 14 |
| PubMedID- 25693818 | This study was carried out to determine the prevalence, pattern and predictors of sleep disturbances among persons with epilepsy (pwe). |
| PubMedID- 23997949 | The multiple sleep latency test (mslt) and maintenance wakefulness test (mwt) are the most widely used objective measures of degree of daytime somnolence [12–14] that allow quantification and refinement of subjective reports of sleep disturbances in patients with epilepsy [13]. |
| PubMedID- 23394796 | There is a high prevalence of sleep disturbances in epilepsy, which are associated with a decreased quality of life of individuals with epilepsy. |
| PubMedID- 24215575 | Therefore, if a therapy possesses both epilepsy suppression and improvement of sleep disturbance, it would be the most appropriate therapy for seizure control. |
| PubMedID- 21439869 | Self-reported sleep disturbances in people with epilepsy are about twice as prevalent as in healthy controls. |
| PubMedID- 23539488 | Comorbid sleep disorders are frequent in patients with epilepsy, particularly obstructive sleep apnea in refractory epilepsy patients which may aggravate seizure burden, while treatment with nasal continuous positive airway pressure often improves seizure frequency. |
| PubMedID- 25496798 | In closing, special considerations for evaluating and treating sleep disorders in children with asd and epilepsy are reviewed. |
| PubMedID- 26273194 | Pregabalin has also been shown to improve sleep disturbances in patients with epilepsy and subjects with a variety of chronic pain conditions including fibromyalgia.20,21 in a recent observational benzodiazepine-withdrawal study with pregabalin,22 patients who still exhibited significant anxiety symptoms at the end of the study showed a significant improvement in their self-reported sleep quality as assessed with the medical outcomes study-sleep scale [mos-s]).23 as was also recently reported by bollu et al24 this would suggest that the effect of pregabalin on these patients’ sleep quality was partly independent of its anxiety-symptom amelioration effect. |
| PubMedID- 26220388 | Subjective sleep disturbance in epilepsy patients at an outpatient clinic: a questionnaire-based study on prevalence. |
| PubMedID- 24582322 | Snoring was included to detect sleep disturbance in people with epilepsy, as documented elsewhere (van golde et al., 2011). |
| PubMedID- 24974198 | Previous research has reported on sleep disturbance in children with epilepsy primarily by subjective parental reports. |
| PubMedID- 25035888 | The review of the literature on sleep disorders in epilepsy over the last two decades is presented. |
| PubMedID- 23103311 | Awareness of the comorbidity of sleep disturbances in epilepsy has been increasing. |
| PubMedID- 23892578 | Subjective sleep disturbances in children with partial epilepsy and their effects on quality of life. |
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