[Non-invasive ventilation of the lungs in neuromuscular diseases].

Objective: To describe a clinical case and to analyze our own practice of using NIVL in a myasthenia (MG) gravis patient.

Material And Methods: Since 2018 in the Republican Research and Clinical Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery NIVL has been performed in 29 patients (21 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients and 8 MG patients). The research was carried out using the portable polysomnograph Polymate YH-1000C (BMC, China) and in the Sleep Laboratory of the Republican Clinical Medical Center of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Belarus using SOMNOlab V 2.

[Psychogenically induced narcolepsy].

Based on own clinical experience in diagnostics and treatment of 4 patients, the authors describe main clinical presentations of narcolepsy. A case report of a 20-year female patient with psychogenic narcolepsy induced by a conflict in the family is described in details. According to polysomnography and Multiple Sleep Latency Test, a reduction in latency to sleep is 22 sec - 3 min 30 sec and the time of occurrence of REM sleep is 7 min 30 sec.

[Sleep-disordered breathing in motor neuron disease].

Aim: To study sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in patients with motor neuron disease (MND).

Material And Methods: Ninety-two patients, 50 women and 42 men, were examined Median age was 62 [55; 67.5] years, MND duration 12 [8.