Open AccessFewer Spontaneous Arousals in Infants with Apparent Life-Threatening Event
Author(s) -
Patricia Franco,
Enza Montemitro,
Sonia Scaillet,
José Groswasser,
Ineko Kato,
JianSheng Lin,
Maria Pia Villa
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.5665/sleep.1038
Subject(s) - medicine , psychology , pediatrics
A deficit in arousal process has been implicated as a mechanism of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Compared with control infants, SIDS victims showed significantly more subcortical activations and fewer cortical arousals than matched control infants. Apparent life-threatening event (ALTE) is often considered as an aborted SIDS event. The aim of this study was to study the arousal characteristics of ALTE infants during the first months of life.
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