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Tag: Sleep

  • Sleep Disorders in Children and Adolescents

    Sleep Disorders in Children and Adolescents

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    Dr. Taoufik

    INTRODUCTION: The frequent occurrence of sleep disorders in children and adolescents has often led to the trivialization of these manifestations, or even to their integration in “normal” development and to underestimating the existence of real disorders, dyssomnias or parasomnias. Recent advances in the understanding of the physiopathology of sleep and wake mechanisms, particularly through the…

  • Snoring and obstructive sleep apnea

    Snoring and obstructive sleep apnea

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Snoring ready to laugh and seems more of a social embarrassment source of marital conflict than a medical problem. It is yet difficult to deafness and, more formidable, in 10% of cases of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, insidious, and even more serious that it remains long ignored. Burwell in 1956 described a case of “extreme…

  • Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)

    Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a zoonosis caused by protozoa (trypanosomes), transmitted to humans by the bite of a tsetse fly (tsetse fly). The transmission is also possible from tainted blood and, in the fetus via the placenta. Sleeping sickness occurs only in sub-Saharan Africa; there are two forms: HAT Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in West…