3 results match your criteria: "National Reference Centre for Narcolepsy and Idiopathic Hypersomnia[Affiliation]"
Effects of pitolisant, a histamine H3 inverse agonist, in drug-resistant idiopathic and symptomatic hypersomnia: a chart review.
Sleep Med
June 2014
National Reference Centre for Narcolepsy and Idiopathic Hypersomnia, France; AP-HP, Hôpital Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière, Service des Pathologies du Sommeil, Paris, France; Pierre and Marie Curie University, Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR7225, Paris, France.
Objective: To evaluate the benefits and risks of pitolisant (a wake-enhancing drug that increases the histamine release in the brain by blocking presynaptic H3 histamine reuptake) in patients with idiopathic (IH) and symptomatic (SH) hypersomnia plus sleepiness refractory to available stimulants (modafinil, methylphenidate, mazindol, sodium oxybate, and d-amphetamine).
Methods: Through retrospective analyses of patient files, the benefit (the score from the Epworth Sleepiness Scale [ESS], authorization renewal) and tolerance (side-effects) of pitolisant were assessed.
Results: A total of 78 patients with IH (n=65%, 78% women) and SH (n=13%, 54% women) received pitolisant 5-50 mg once per day over the course of five days to 37 months.
Pediatric narcolepsy: clinical and therapeutical approaches.
Handb Clin Neurol
March 2014
Paediatric Sleep Centre and National Reference Centre for Narcolepsy and Idiopathic Hypersomnia, Paris, France. Electronic address:
Narcolepsy occurs during childhood in combination with cataplexy in one-third of the subjects. Symptoms may develop rapidly over a few weeks or months, with excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy being the most dramatic and observable symptoms. It can be secondary to brain tumors or several rare diseases, but in most cases narcolepsy with or without cataplexy is a primary condition, better explained by the selective loss of hypocretin neurons in posterolateral hypothalamus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Mazindol is a tricyclic, anorectic, non-amphetamine stimulant used in narcolepsy and obesity since 1970. This study aimed to evaluate the long-term benefit/risk ratio in drug-resistant hypersomniacs and cataplexy sufferers.
Methods: By retrospective analysis of the patients' files in the hospitals of Paris-Salpêtrière (n=91), Montpellier (n=40) and Lyon (n=8), the benefit (Epworth Sleepiness Score (ESS), cataplexy frequency, authorization renewal) and tolerance (side-effects, vital signs, electrocardiogram and cardiac echography) of mazindol were assessed.