POLI F

The aim of this study is to evaluate the changes in sphenooccipital synchondrosis features 1-year after rapid maxillary expansion (RME) therapy, in order to assess the influence that these changes, if any, have on sagittal and vertical skeletal cephalometric variables. The results of this study indicated that RME had statically significant...

Study Objectives: We analyzed the potential predictive factors for precocious puberty, observed in some cases of childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC) and for obesity, a much more common feature of NC, through a systematic assessment of pubertal staging, body mass index (BMI), and metabolic/endocrine biochemical analyses. Design:...

Narcolepsy with cataplexy is characterized by daytime sleepiness, cataplexy (sudden loss of bilateral muscle tone triggered by emotions), sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations and disturbed nocturnal sleep. Narcolepsy with cataplexy is most often associated with human leucocyte antigen-DQB1*0602 and is caused by the loss of...