Showing papers in "Sleep Medicine in 2000"

TL;DR: These scales for childhood SRBDs, snoring, sleepiness, and behavior are valid and reliable instruments that can be used to identifySRBDs or associated symptom-constructs in clinical research when polysomnography is not feasible.

TL;DR: The age effect for early-onset RLS indicates a slowly progressive disorder, which appears to occur commonly in families, slowly progress with age and have a limited relation to serum iron status.

TL;DR: The evidence for valerian as a treatment for insomnia is inconclusive and there is a need for rigorous trials to determine its efficacy.

TL;DR: RLS patients are much more likely to have previously been diagnosed with extrapyramidal disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, depression, and painful conditions such as joint and back disorders.

TL;DR: Modafinil is effective for the long-term treatment of EDS associated with narcolepsy and significantly improves perceptions of general health, with no evidence of tolerance developing during 40 weeks of treatment.

TL;DR: Abnormal breathing during sleep (that is frequently, but not always, associated with loud, chronic snoring, and may be a consequence of edema induced by hormonal changes associated with pregnancy), can be seen in otherwise healthy young pregnant women and may contribute to the symptom of daytime sleepiness.

TL;DR: Modafinil continues to be an effective and well-tolerated drug after 16 weeks of treatment with no significant effects on nocturnal sleep, blood pressure, heart rate, the electrocardiogram (ECG), weight, or mood.

TL;DR: Zaleplon 10 mg is effective in the treatment of sleep onset insomnia over a period of 35 nights, with minimal evidence of undesired effects.

TL;DR: It is concluded that in children as in adults, respiratory symptoms are associated with sleep disturbances and the increased insomnia seen in adult women may begin in early adolescence.

TL;DR: Patients with mild OSA showed a high rate of CPAP discontinuation and those patients who manifested good compliance during the first week of treatment continued using CPAP for the entire first year, and experienced improved alertness during the day.

TL;DR: A mandibular advancement device is an effective treatment alternative in some patients with severe OSAS, and the tongue retaining device and the soft palate lift do not achieve satisfactory results.

TL;DR: It is concluded that fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are associated with subjective sleep complaints, but do not represent sleep disorders.

TL;DR: Treatment with nasal continuous positive airway pressure was associated with substantial reductions in the frequency and severity of cluster headaches, suggesting that obstructive sleep apnea may trigger CH during susceptible periods.

TL;DR: The ability to monitor multiple physiologic parameters during sleep has led to a greater understanding of normal and abnormal phenomena which occur during sleep, and has resulted in the identification of a variety of sleep disorders which have specific therapeutic implications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the clinical differences and similarities presented by patients diagnosed as OSAS and UARS subjects, and evaluated the ability of a sleep disorders specialist to dissociate the two syndromes based upon clinical evaluation.

TL;DR: The notion that HLA-DQB1*0602-positive narcolepsy patients are more etiologically homogenous than HLAsomnographic-negative Narcoleptic patients is supported.

TL;DR: Support is provided for the value of combined pharmacotherapy and relaxation training in the treatment of psychophysiological insomnia with significant improvements in self-report measures of total sleep time, sleep efficiency, and wakefulness after sleep onset in the combined drug and relaxation groups.

TL;DR: Patients over age 65 are able to tolerate CPAP as well as patients under age 65, and older patients were less compliant with CPAP therapy than younger patients and may not realize its benefits, according to a prospective, non-randomized study.

TL;DR: Physicians should be aware that severe sleep- disordered breathing may be the initial and sole presenting feature of Arnold-Chiari malformation.

TL;DR: The case of a woman with medically-refractory seizures secondary to a mesial temporal glioma is presented and the usefulness of combining sleep recordings with EEG monitoring in the evaluation of candidates for epilepsy surgery is supported.

TL;DR: Children with partial arousal parasomnias do have slightly more disturbed sleep than community controls, but not as much as in children diagnosed with sleep terrors.

TL;DR: The use of citalopram (Celexa), the newest and most specific of the serotonin reuptake inhibitors, was successful in treating cataplexy without significant side-effects, and Stimulant drugs remained necessary for controlling symptoms of excessive drowsiness.

TL;DR: There is need to refine the diagnostic characteristics to resolve some of the contradictory descriptions of this disorder in the present literature.

TL;DR: The consequences, prevalence, pathophysiology and therapy of nocturia in SDB are discussed, including the absence of scienti®cally derived normative values for the frequency of awakenings to urinate or for the volume of urine voided per night.

TL;DR: A pilot study demostrates the feasibility of a standardized procedure for provoking cataplexy, which permits further study of these phenomena and has considerable potential as a diagnostic tool, especially in situations where an MSLT is impractical.

TL;DR: A case of RBD is reported in a narcoleptic patient arising from cataplexy and wakeful dreaming, where the patient has presumed RBD out of REM intrusions into wakefulness.