Narcolepsy and ROHHAD Syndrome

Abstract

Investigators at Ghent University Hospital, Belgium; Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, and Sleep Medicine Centre, Heeze, Netherlands, report a 7-year-old girl with rapid-onset obesity, hypothalamic dysfunction, hypoventilation, and autonomic dysregulation (ROHHAD syndrome).

Keywords

• hypothalamic dysfunction
• autonomic dysregulation
• secondary narcolepsy and cataplexy