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Background Sodium oxybate (Xyrem®), approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for narcolepsy with cataplexy, is only available through risk mitigation programs due to potential adverse effects including respiratory and central nervous system ...
Alex Iranzo +4 more
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Decreased body mass index during treatment with sodium oxybate in narcolepsy type 1 [PDF]
Narcolepsy type 1 is characterised by an increase in body weight after disease onset, frequently leading to obesity. It was suggested that this weight gain may be counteracted by treatment with sodium oxybate. We here provide longitudinal body mass index
Smolders, I.M. +25 more
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Sialidosis type I: How to alleviate disabling myoclonic seizures?-A multicenter analysis of eight cases and review of the literature. [PDF]
Abstract Objective Sialidosis type I (ST‐1) is an autosomal‐recessive, very rare, progressive lysosomal storage disorder caused by pathogenic variants in NEU1. It is clinically characterized by progressive ataxia, myoclonic seizures (MS), bilateral tonic–clonic seizures (BTCS), and distinctive ophthalmological findings.
Gburek-Augustat J +15 more
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Pharmacotherapy of Narcolepsy: Focus on Sodium Oxybate
Narcolepsy is a complex disease with multiple symptoms that include excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis. Pharmacologic management of patients with narcolepsy is based on treating these symptoms. Sodium
Sanjeev V. Kothare, Joseph Kaleyias
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Efficiency of sodium oxybate in episodic cluster headache
We report the case of a 60-year-old man suffering from episodic cluster headache treated successfully with sodium oxybate.
Hidalgo, H +4 more
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The cost-utility of sodium oxybate as narcolepsy treatment
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Based on class-I studies, sodium oxybate is regarded as a first-line treatment for both EDS and cataplexy. The cost-effectiveness of sodium oxybate is largely unknown, though.
Kjellberg, J. +17 more
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Sodium oxybate plus nalmefene for the treatment of alcohol use disorder: A case series.
The treatment of alcohol use disorder still remains a challenge. The efficacy of the combined pharmacological treatment for alcohol use disorder has been widely investigated with controversial results.
BERNARDI, MAURO +13 more
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Logan Douglas Schneider,1 Joanne Stevens,2 Aatif M Husain,3 Diane Ito,4 Douglas S Fuller,5 Phyllis C Zee,6 Wayne Macfadden2 1Stanford University Sleep Medicine Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; 2Global Medical Affairs ...
Schneider LD +6 more
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Narcolepsy and rapid eye movement sleep
Summary Since the first description of narcolepsy at the end of the 19th Century, great progress has been made. The disease is nowadays distinguished as narcolepsy type 1 and type 2. In the 1960s, the discovery of rapid eye movement sleep at sleep onset led to improved understanding of core sleep‐related disease symptoms of the disease (excessive ...
Francesco Biscarini +4 more
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Summary Parasomnias and sleep‐related movement disorders (SRMD) are major causes of sleep disorders and may be drug induced. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the literature to examine the association between drug use and the occurrence of parasomnias and SRMD.
Sylvain Dumont +5 more
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