title: Benign nocturnal alternating hemiplegia of childhood: The first clinical report with paroxysmal events home-video recordings.
abstract: Benign familial nocturnal alternating hemiplegia of childhood (BNAHC) is a rare disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of hemiplegia, arising from sleep without progression to neurological or intellectual impairment. It is distinct from the malignant, relatively more common, alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC), complicated by developmental deterioration, cognitive impairment, and permanent neurological deficits such as choreoathetosis. The authors add a new case of BNAHC to the pertinent literature and report, for the first time, a video with the typical nocturnal hemiplegic attacks in order to improve knowledge about this disorder among child neurologists and pediatricians and increase the possibility of clarifying its pathogenesis and molecular basis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. stefano.sartori@unipd.it
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sartori
authors.forename: Marilena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vecchi
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Toldo
authors.forename: Clementina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Boniver
authors.forename: Bernardo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dalla Bernardina
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maria Laverda
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020447:Parasomnias / Q000150:complications*; D014741:Video Recording / Q000379:methods*