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Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS), also called "Sleeping beauty syndrome" is a rare, disorder predominantly reported in adolescent males, characterized by recurrent episodes of hypersomnia and to various degrees, hyperphagia, cognitive disturbances, and hypersexuality. Here, we are reporting a case of a middle-aged female, with 16 years delay in diagnosing KLS, poor response to most of the psychotropics, except good response to a combination of lithium, sertraline, and modafinil for last 12 months and also reviewing other female cases with KLS reported from India.
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PMID:Sleeping Beauty Syndrome: A Case Report and Review of Female Cases Reported from India. 2861 76

Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS) is a rare disorder characterized by episodic hypersomnia along with cognitive and behavioral disturbances (i.e., hyperphagia and hypersexuality). It is commonly seen in a young male. Not much is known about its long-term management; however, many reports suggest the usefulness of anticonvulsants and lithium for the same. We hereby report a case of childhood KLS from India who was successfully treated with low-dose lithium and discuss the relevant literature.
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PMID:Successful Long-term Management of a Child with Kleine-Levin Syndrome with Low-dose Lithium. 2885 56

Kleine-Levin syndrome is a rare neuro-psychiatric disease. Most of the young patients are males who present with hypersomnia, cognitive dysfunction, altered perception, eating disorder (e.g. hyperphagia) or disinhibited behaviour (e.g. hypersexuality). Psychiatric symptoms such as apathy, delusions and hallucinations, depressed mood and compulsive behaviours also appear often and result frequently in a psychiatric referral. These symptoms, however, should be distinguished from those of psychiatric diseases as early as possible in order to ensure that patients do not receive the wrong treatment. We present the case of an 11-year-old boy in whom the psychiatric symptoms were initially the most prominent ones.
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PMID:[A young boy with periodic strange behavior and hypersomnia: Kleine-Levin syndrome]. 2888 Mar 59

Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS) is a rare disorder (around 1.5 cases per million population), often presenting with triad of recurrent episodes of hypersomnia, hyperphagia, and hypersexuality. However, cases of atypical KLS with features opposite to that being commonly reported are often misdiagnosed as psychosis and present as a diagnostic challenge for the physicians, psychiatrists, and neurologists. We describe a case of atypical KLS which was misdiagnosed as unspecified nonorganic psychosis previously, highlighting the various points which would be helpful in identifying and diagnosing cases of atypical KLS in future.
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PMID:Atypical Kleine-Levin syndrome: An elusive entity? 2902 74

Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS) is a rare sleep disorder mainly affecting teenage boys in which the main features are intermittent hypersomnolence, behavioral and cognitive disturbances, hyperphagia, and in some cases hyper sexuality. Etiology is unknown, and there is no specific clinical or imaging test for this syndrome even though the illness has well-defined clinical features. Also, there is no effective treatment for KLS. KLS is self-limited, so the prognosis for these patients is not so bad. This study presents our case report and comprehensive workout that led to diagnosis which is primarily clinical. Our patient is a 20-year-old man referred to our clinic because of sleeping problems. At the age of 14, he presented with complaints of the excessive duration of sleep, increased appetite, excessive daytime sleepiness, loss of interest in social activities during attendance of high school and hallucinations. The excessive diagnostic procedure does not find pathological. Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS) is a rare sleep disorder of unknown etiology which diagnosis is clinical and diagnostic workup is mainly to exclude other similar conditions. There is no specific therapy, but the disease is self-limited and with good prognosis.
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PMID:A Case of Kleine-Levin Syndrome: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge. 2943 97

Kleine-Levin syndrome is an uncommon disorder with recurrent episodes of hypersomnia, and behavioral abnormalities such as binge-eating and hypersexuality. Our aims were to report cases of the Kleine-Levin syndrome diagnosed in Buenos Aires, Argentina and to characterize the clinical presentation of these patients. We evaluated patients with Kleine-Levin syndrome according to the International Classification of Sleep Disorders. Psychiatric, physical and neurological symptoms were present. Some patients were investigated with brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, electroencephalogram and some with polysomnography. Seven patients (2 female, 5 male), ages from 8 to 47 years (median 20.7 years) were included in the study. The duration of symptoms was 1.5-20 days with a mean of 8. The range of interval between episodes: 2.5-24 months, median=13. All seven patients had a history of hypersomnia (one of them post head injury); 5 reported hyperphagia and 2 reduced appetite. Brain MRI was performed in 6 patients: 1 showed non-specific abnormalities and another presented diencephalic hematoma; the rest were normal. Our paper is the first one in Buenos Aires reporting Kleine-Levin syndrome of different ethiologies. The prevalence is difficult to estimate in our country.
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PMID:[Kleine Levin syndrome: Review of diagnosed cases of Buenos Aires, Argentina]. 3077 5


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