Chronic Pyelocystitis with Particular Reference to the Ketogenic Diet Treatment

Ketogenic diet for epilepsy treatment.

The ketogenic diet (KD), a high-fat, low-carbohydrate, and adequate-protein diet is an established, effective nonpharmacologic treatment option for intractable childhood epilepsy. The KD was developed in 1921 and even though it has been increasingly used worldwide in the past decade, many neurologists are not familiar with this therapeutic approach. In the past few years, alternative and more f...

[Studies on chronic headache--with particular reference to dysrhythmic headache].

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Sciatica, with particular reference to its causes and treatment.

Ketogenic diet for treatment of epilepsy.

QUESTION Families of children with epilepsy now ask about the ketogenic diet at clinic visits. Is it effective and safe to use for treatment of epilepsy? ANSWER The ketogenic diet can be considered an option for children with intractable epilepsy who use multiple antiepileptic drugs. It is a treatment of choice for seizures associated with glucose transporter protein deficiency syndrome (ie, ...

Ketogenic Diet as Preferred Treatment of FIRES

Investigators from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, report 2 children who presented with FIRES and prolonged AED-resistant status epilepticus.