Long-term adherence to ambulatory initiated continuous positive airway pressure in non-syndromic OSA children.

Purpose: In children, the usual indications for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) are residual OSA after adenotonsillectomy and/or persistent OSA due to obesity. Data concerning adherence (hours/night) following ambulatory CPAP initiation are scarce.

Methods: An observational cohort of 78 children was followed over 2 years.

Childhood-onset narcolepsy, obesity and puberty in four consecutive children: a close temporal link.

Narcolepsy is a rare but disabling condition that causes excessive daytime sleepiness. Interestingly, weight gain is frequent in patients with narcolepsy and it has sometimes been described very early in the course of the disease. Here, we report four consecutive obese children who were referred to our sleep laboratory for excessive daytime sleepiness and suspected sleep apnoea syndrome.

[Trichloroethylene intoxication presenting with temporal seizures].

Introduction: Trichloroethylene (TCE) is extensively used as a degreasing agent in the metal industry and as a solvent for organic compounds. Its neurotoxicity (with respect to both the peripheral and central nervous systems) is now widely acknowledged.

Observation: Here, we report the case of a 32-year-old male drug addict presenting temporal seizures after "huffing" TCE (i.

[A case of neuropathy mimicking Guillain-Barré syndrome after arsenic intoxication].

Introduction: Chronic arsenic toxicity is a global health problem affecting millions of people. Acute arsenic poisoning is less frequent and it is most often lethal. Therefore, its consequences are not well known, more precisely its neurological consequences.

Stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease: cognitive and affective changes are not linked to the motor outcome.

Background: Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN0 DBS) is a widely performed surgical treatment in PD. However, the relationship between motor results and cognitive/behavioural modifications is unclear.

Objective: This study investigated the correlation patterns of the motor, cognitive and behavioural consequences of STN DBS with respect to positioning of the active contact.