title: Narcolepsy and cataplexy: a pediatric case report.
abstract: Narcolepsy is characterized by excessive sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis during the rapid eye movement period of sleep. Herein, we present a boy aged eight years who was diagnosed as having narcolepsy and cataplexy about thirteen months after his first presentation. He was admitted with symptoms of daytime sleepiness. In the follow-up, cataplexy in the form of head dropping attacks developed seven months after the first admission. The patient was investigated for different prediagnoses and was eventually diagnosed as having narcolepsy and cataplexy through polysomnography and multiple sleep latency tests thirteen months after the first presentation. He is being followed up and is under drug therapy; his symptoms have improved substantially.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Pediatric Neurology, Başkent University School of Medicine Hospital, Adana, Turkey.
authors.forename: Tülin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Savaş
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Pediatric Neurology, Başkent University School of Medicine Hospital, Adana, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ilknur
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Erol
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Pediatric Neurology, Başkent University School of Medicine Hospital, Adana, Turkey.
authors.forename: Semra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saygı
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Pulmonology, Başkent University School of Medicine Hospital, Adana, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Habeşoğlu
keywords: Cataplexy; child; narcolepsy