Ketogenic Diet in Epileptic Encephalopathies
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Ketogenic Diet in Epileptic Encephalopathies
The ketogenic diet is a medically supervised high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that has been found useful in patients with refractory epilepsy. It has been shown to be effective in treating multiple seizure types and epilepsy syndromes. In this paper, we review the use of the ketogenic diet in epileptic encephalopathies such as Ohtahara syndrome, West syndrome, Dravet syndrome, epilepsy with myoc...
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1 Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, P.O. Box 7897, Riyadh 11159, Saudi Arabia 2 Clinic of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Medical School, University of Salerno, S.Giovanni e Ruggi Hospital, Largo d’Ippocrate, 84100 Salerno, Italy 3 Divisions of Child and Adolescent Neurology, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street SW No. W4...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epilepsy Research and Treatment
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2090-1348,2090-1356
DOI: 10.1155/2013/652052