Unlabelled: Excessive daytime sleepiness is a common presenting symptom that may present a diagnostic challenge for the sleep medicine clinician. We present a case of an adolescent female with excessive daytime sleepiness and "sleep attacks" who was evaluated using a 2-week sleep log, wrist actigraphy, baseline polysomnogram, and Multiple Sleep Latency Test. Multiple Sleep Latency Test results noted a short mean sleep latency without sleep onset rapid eye movement periods, concerning for possible central disorders of hypersomnolence.
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February 2022
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has a wide pediatric clinical spectrum. Initial reports suggested that children had milder symptoms compared with adults; then diagnosis of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) emerged. We performed a retrospective cohort study of hospitalized patients at a children's hospital over 1 year.
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