Vol. 28 (5) 2007 Neuro endocrinology letters

Suggestive evidence of erythropoietin level abnormality in patients with sporadic and familial cases of the restless legs syndrome.

BACKGROUND: The restless legs syndrome (RLS) is divided into two forms: idiopathic and secondary. About half the cases of the former are found to have a positive family history. The lack of objective and quantitative parameters in familial RLS also represents a drawback for genetic studies. We tried to find a feature distinguishing the .....