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Childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy: comparison between post-H1N1 vaccination and sporadic cases

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Sleep Med. 2013 Dec 1. pii: S1389-9457(13)01214-8. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2013.09.021. [Epub ahead of print]
Childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy: comparison between post-H1N1 vaccination and sporadic cases.
Fabio P1, Peltola H2, Sarkanen T2, Moghadam KK1, Plazzi G1, Partinen M3.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES:

We aimed to compare post-Pandemrix? vaccination (postvaccine) childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC) vs sporadic pre-H1N1 pandemic (pre-H1N1) cases.
METHODS:

Clinical, anthropometric, polysomnographic, and cerebrospinal hypocretin 1 (hcrt-1) measurements were collected together with the video recordings of cataplexy in 27 Finnish patients with NC onset after H1N1 Pandemrix? vaccination (mean age, 12?4years; 52% boys) and 42 Italian NC patients with NC onset before the H1N1 pandemic (mean age, 11?3years; 48% boys). All subjects carried the HLA-DQB1*0602 allele.
RESULTS:

Postvaccine subjects were older at NC onset (12?3 vs 9?3years; P=.008) and displayed a shorter mean sleep latency in multiple sleep latency tests (MSLT) (2.3?2.2 vs 3.7?2.9min; P=.026) compared to pre-H1N1 cases. Anthropometric, clinical (core NC symptoms), hcrt-1 deficiency, and polysomnographic data did not differ among groups, but higher disrupted nocturnal sleep was observed in postvaccine subjects. Comparison of cataplexy features at video assessment showed an overlapping picture with the exception for hyperkinetic movements which appeared to be more evident in pre-H1N1 subjects.
CONCLUSIONS:

The clinical picture of childhood NC was similar in postvaccine and pre-H1N1 children.

Copyright ? 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KEYWORDS:

Children, Influenza, Narcolepsy with cataplexy, Pandemic H1N1, Vaccination

PMID:
24468101
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24468101
 
Re: Childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy: comparison between post-H1N1 vaccination and sporadic cases

If the vaccine caused a disturbance in the sleep pattern of these boys, then I wonder what the incidence of narcolepsy and cataplexy is in boys who were unvaccinated, caught the disease and carried the HLA-DQB1*0602 allele?
 
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