Investigating reasons for CPAP adherence in adolescents: a qualitative approach.

Study Objectives: Adolescents with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) represent an important but understudied subgroup of long-term continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) users. The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify factors related to adherence from the perspective of adolescents and their caregivers.

Methods: Individual open-ended, semi-structured interviews were conducted with adolescents (n = 21) and caregivers (n = 20).

Brain tumor presenting as somnambulism in an adolescent.

Background: Sleepwalking is typically a benign and self-limited non-rapid eye movement parasomnia of childhood.

Patient: We describe an unusual 15-year-old boy referred to our sleep center for new-onset sleepwalking.

Results: An overnight polysomnogram was normal from a respiratory standpoint, but a concurrent extended electroencephalogram montage showed frequent epileptiform discharges from the right parietal-temporal region and two electroclinical seizures arising from the right-frontal-central-temporal region during sleep.