Excessive Fragmentary Myoclonus: Case Report
JOURNAL OF TURKISH SLEEP MEDICINE-TURK UYKU TBB DERGISI, cilt.2, sa.2, ss.44-46, 2015 (ESCI, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 2 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2015
- Doi Numarası: 10.4274/jtsm.02.012
- Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF TURKISH SLEEP MEDICINE-TURK UYKU TBB DERGISI
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.44-46
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Excessive fragmentary myoclonus, normal variant, sleep related movement disorders, polysomnography
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa Adresli: Evet
Özet
Excessive fragmentary myoclonus is defined as a "normal variant" under the subgroup of sleep related movement disorders. It has no known clinical consequences. Here a 72 year-old man, in whom polysomnography recordings revealed continuous excessive fragmentary myoclonus during wakefulness and sleep was presented and it was aimed to emphasize this benign clinical table which is not to be defined as a disease but a normal variant. It is of great importance especially for clinicians scoring polysomnography to be aware of this normal variant in order for differential diagnosis of sleep related movement disorders.