Probable causal link between epilepsy and sleep apnea: case report Provável associação entre epilepsia e apnéia do sono: relato de caso

Patients with epilepsy were reported to have concomitant sleep apnea, but it has been rarely linked to the epilepsy itself. We present a case of a 28-year-old, obese man with secondary medically resistant partial complex epilepsy due to a brain trauma, with progressive snoring, and sleep agitation,...

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Main Authors: Michele Dominici, Fernando Pompeu Filho, Marleide da Mota Gomes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2007-03-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2007000100034