Obstructive sleep apnoea in adults: body postures and weight changes interactions.

The aim of this work was to study the relationship between changes of body posture dominance and changes of body weight overtime in adults with obstructive sleep apnoea. The participants were 112 non-treated adults with obstructive sleep apnoea who underwent two polysomnographic evaluations at our Sleep Disorders Unit during an average of 6.2years interval.

Vegetative state.

Nowadays more and more patients survive severe brain injury, whether due to traumatic or other causes, owing to the technological advances in medicine. Added to this is a better understanding of pathophysiologic processes, the quality and availability of emergency medicine, and increased medical knowledge in the field. More patients are regaining consciousness than previously.

[Restorgenesis: a new concept].

This article suggests a new concept, named "restorgenesis". It addresses issues related to the essence of rehabilitation, such as defining the patient's potential for recovery, the milestones of the recovery process, its facilitating and impinging factors. This concept is a "hybrid" of two already existing notions: "pathogenesis", i.

Sleep tonus inversion: a feature of juvenile dystonic parkinsonism.

Polysomnographic monitoring of a 16-year-old girl suffering from dopa-responsive dystonic parkinsonism showed a change in the distribution of muscle activity in thigh muscles during different stages of sleep. The hamstring muscles were hypertonic at sleep onset compared with the vastus lateralis of the quadriceps muscles. At the third sleep cycle of each of the 2 nights, the time at which sleep benefit becomes clinically evident, the hypertonia in the hamstring muscles was reversed and the vastus lateralis became more hypertonic.