Nocturnal eating syndrome: a case report with therapeutic response to dexfenfluramine
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Nocturnal eating syndrome in adults.
Ten adult subjects were referred to our sleep disorders center complaining of difficulty in maintaining sleep due to frequent and recurrent awakenings to eat or drink. All patients manifested more than one episode per night, characterized by compulsive food seeking and a return to sleep only after adequate food intake. Food-seeking drive was described as an urgent abnormal need to swallow food ...
متن کاملPHACES syndrome with cataract and Horner’s syndrome: a case report
PHACES syndrome (Posterior Fossa Malformations, Hemangioma, Arterial Anomalies, Cardiac Defects and Coarctation of the Aorta, Eye Abnormalities, and Sternal Abnormalities or Ventral Developmental Defects) is a rare neurocutaneous syndrome, which characteristic feature is large segmental hemangioma. Extracutaneous involvement is an important cause of morbidity in this syndrome.<br /...
متن کاملDiagnostics challenges and therapeutic response in Blau syndrome – case report
Introduction Blau’s syndrome is an autosomal-dominant, autoinflammatory disease characterized by a non caseous granulomatous inflammation,presenting with arthritis, dermatitis and uveitis, caused by mutations of the CARD15/NOD2. Patients are treated with high doses of oral corticosteroids, and if the therapeutic response is unsatisfactory,additional treatment with immunosuppressive agents is th...
متن کاملLangerhans cell Histiocytosis: Report of a case with cutaneous lesions with favorable response to oral Thalidomide
We report of a 29-year-old man presented with yellow-red, scaling papules on the skin of scalp, retro-auricular folds, inguinal, axillary, chest and abdomen. The lesions had a poikilodermatious appearance in some areas, such as trunk. The patient also had diabetes insipidus and skull osteolytic lesions. The diagnosis of langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) was suggested based on H and E staining...
متن کاملSheehan Syndrome: A Case Report
'rwo cases of post-partum amenorrhea with other clinical signs of She1ehan syndrom was studied at the Loghmandoleh Medical Center, National University of Iran. Clinical diagnosis was confirmed by appropriate laboratory work -up in the f.irSlt case and the patient was placed on the conventional end orga.n hormon substitutional therapy (Thyroid -Gonad -Adrenal) and was discharged in good cond...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sao Paulo Medical Journal
سال: 1994
ISSN: 1516-3180
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-31801994000200011