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Narcolepsy in Saudi patients before and after the 2009 H1N1 vaccination

The experience of 2 referral centers

Shaden O. Qasrawi, Ali M. Albarrak, Adel S. Alharbi, Samar Nashwan, Aljohara S. Almeneessier, Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal, Muslim M. Alsaadi and Ahmed S. BaHammam
Saudi Medical Journal December 2017, 38 (12) 1196-1200; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.12.21046
Shaden O. Qasrawi
From the University Sleep Disorders Center and National Plan for Science and Technology (Qasrawi, Nashwan, Pandi-Perumal, Alsaadi, BaHammam), from the Family and Community Medicine Department (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine (Albarrak), from the Pediatrics Sleep Disorders Center (Alharbi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Somnogen Canada Inc. (Pandi-Perumal), College Street, Toronto, Canada
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Ali M. Albarrak
From the University Sleep Disorders Center and National Plan for Science and Technology (Qasrawi, Nashwan, Pandi-Perumal, Alsaadi, BaHammam), from the Family and Community Medicine Department (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine (Albarrak), from the Pediatrics Sleep Disorders Center (Alharbi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Somnogen Canada Inc. (Pandi-Perumal), College Street, Toronto, Canada
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Adel S. Alharbi
From the University Sleep Disorders Center and National Plan for Science and Technology (Qasrawi, Nashwan, Pandi-Perumal, Alsaadi, BaHammam), from the Family and Community Medicine Department (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine (Albarrak), from the Pediatrics Sleep Disorders Center (Alharbi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Somnogen Canada Inc. (Pandi-Perumal), College Street, Toronto, Canada
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Samar Nashwan
From the University Sleep Disorders Center and National Plan for Science and Technology (Qasrawi, Nashwan, Pandi-Perumal, Alsaadi, BaHammam), from the Family and Community Medicine Department (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine (Albarrak), from the Pediatrics Sleep Disorders Center (Alharbi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Somnogen Canada Inc. (Pandi-Perumal), College Street, Toronto, Canada
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Aljohara S. Almeneessier
From the University Sleep Disorders Center and National Plan for Science and Technology (Qasrawi, Nashwan, Pandi-Perumal, Alsaadi, BaHammam), from the Family and Community Medicine Department (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine (Albarrak), from the Pediatrics Sleep Disorders Center (Alharbi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Somnogen Canada Inc. (Pandi-Perumal), College Street, Toronto, Canada
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Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal
From the University Sleep Disorders Center and National Plan for Science and Technology (Qasrawi, Nashwan, Pandi-Perumal, Alsaadi, BaHammam), from the Family and Community Medicine Department (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine (Albarrak), from the Pediatrics Sleep Disorders Center (Alharbi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Somnogen Canada Inc. (Pandi-Perumal), College Street, Toronto, Canada
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Muslim M. Alsaadi
From the University Sleep Disorders Center and National Plan for Science and Technology (Qasrawi, Nashwan, Pandi-Perumal, Alsaadi, BaHammam), from the Family and Community Medicine Department (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine (Albarrak), from the Pediatrics Sleep Disorders Center (Alharbi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Somnogen Canada Inc. (Pandi-Perumal), College Street, Toronto, Canada
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Ahmed S. BaHammam
From the University Sleep Disorders Center and National Plan for Science and Technology (Qasrawi, Nashwan, Pandi-Perumal, Alsaadi, BaHammam), from the Family and Community Medicine Department (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine (Albarrak), from the Pediatrics Sleep Disorders Center (Alharbi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Somnogen Canada Inc. (Pandi-Perumal), College Street, Toronto, Canada
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vol. 38 no. 12 1196-1200
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.12.21046
PubMed 
29209667

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 9, 2017
  • Accepted October 22, 2017
  • Published online March 3, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Shaden O. Qasrawi, MD, MRCP,
  2. Ali M. Albarrak, MD, FRCPC,
  3. Adel S. Alharbi, MD, FCCP,
  4. Samar Nashwan, MSc,
  5. Aljohara S. Almeneessier, MD, ABFM,
  6. Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal, MSc,
  7. Muslim M. Alsaadi, MD and
  8. Ahmed S. BaHammam, MD, FRCP⇑
  1. From the University Sleep Disorders Center and National Plan for Science and Technology (Qasrawi, Nashwan, Pandi-Perumal, Alsaadi, BaHammam), from the Family and Community Medicine Department (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine (Albarrak), from the Pediatrics Sleep Disorders Center (Alharbi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Somnogen Canada Inc. (Pandi-Perumal), College Street, Toronto, Canada
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Prof. Ahmed BaHammam, Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: ashammam2{at}gmail.com
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