[Idiopathic hypersomnia: a kind of sleep disorder that cannot be ignored].

Idiopathic hypersomnia(IH) is a chronic central disorders of hypersomnolence that manifests as excessive daytime sleepiness occurring despite normal or prolonged sleep time. Due to the individual heterogeneity of disease, the high overlap of clinical, poor repeatability of polysomnography monitoring results and the lack of clear disease biomarkers, clinical diagnosis and differential diagnosis are still difficult. This article summarizes the update of diagnostic criteria, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment strategies of IH, in order to receive attention, increase the recognition rate of clinical diagnosis, reduce the misdiagnosis rate and missed diagnosis rate.