An Adolescent with Kleine-levin Syndrome: A Case Report

• Main Authors: Pezhman Ghaem-Maghamy, Mirfarhad Ghalebandi, Mitra Hakim shooshtary
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2007-08-01
• Series: Iranian Journal of Psychiatry
• Subjects: Adolescent; Hypersomnia; Sleep disorders
• Online Access: http://journals.tums.ac.ir/PdfMed.aspx?pdf_med=/upload_files/pdf/12105.pdf&manuscript_id=12105

Kleine-levin syndrome is characterized as a periodic hypersomnia crisis as well as dietary and variable significant psychic symptoms. This report describes the finding on an evaluation of a 15- year- old girl with KLS. She had amnesia to her episodes. All episodes were correlated with menstrual period.Polysomnographic finding of this patient was normal with 5 sleep cycles in sleep architecture and sleep efficiency of 99%. Decreasing in stage I, increasing of stage III and IV and decreasing in REM sleep was notable. Dextroamphetamin was given to the patient in order to decrease sleepiness.Kleine-levin syndrome should be considered in patients with periodic hypersomnia.