Cataplexy in the Prader–Willi syndrome
| Autor: | John Tolmie, J B P Stephenson, Edward S. Tobias |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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congenital
hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Letter Cataplexy business.industry media_common.quotation_subject nutritional and metabolic diseases nervous system diseases Laughter Endocrinology Internal medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine medicine.symptom business media_common |
| Popis: | We report cataplexy, sudden atonic episodes provoked by emotion, in three patients with Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) and suggest that cataplexy may be relatively common in this condition. Detailed questioning of the mother of an 18 year old woman who had PWS elicited a history of recurrent attacks, apparently induced by laughter, with sudden loss of power in all the patient's limbs. If … |
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