A 45-year-old Japanese woman with multiple sclerosis (MS) manifested hypersomnia in a relapse of MS. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed new bilateral hypothalamic lesions, and the hypocretin-1 level in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was significantly low. Methylprednisolone pulse treatment successfully resolved the hypersomnia and the left hypothalamic lesion, and it normalized the hypocretin-1 level in the CSF. These findings suggest that the hypothalamic hypocretin (orexin) system may be crucial to maintaining the arousal level and that lesions in the system can cause hypersomnia in MS.
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Showa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Emergency & Crit Care Med, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, JapanShowa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Emergency & Crit Care Med, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, Japan
Dohi, Kenji
Ripley, Beth
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Stanford Univ, Ctr Narcolepsy, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USAShowa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Emergency & Crit Care Med, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, Japan
Ripley, Beth
Fujiki, Nobuhiro
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Fujiki, Nobuhiro
Ohtaki, Hirokazu
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Showa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Anat, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, JapanShowa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Emergency & Crit Care Med, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, Japan
Ohtaki, Hirokazu
Yamamoto, Takefumi
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Showa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Emergency & Crit Care Med, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, JapanShowa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Emergency & Crit Care Med, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, Japan
Yamamoto, Takefumi
Goto, Yoko
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Showa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Emergency & Crit Care Med, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, JapanShowa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Emergency & Crit Care Med, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, Japan
Goto, Yoko
Nakamachi, Tomoya
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Showa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Anat, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, JapanShowa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Emergency & Crit Care Med, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, Japan
Nakamachi, Tomoya
Shioda, Seiji
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Showa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Anat, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, JapanShowa Univ, Sch Med, Dept Emergency & Crit Care Med, Shinagawa Ku, Tokyo 142, Japan
Shioda, Seiji
Aruga, Tohru
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Aruga, Tohru
Nishino, Seiji
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