Efficacy of the ketogenic diet for infantile spasms

Pediatrics

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 780-783

  Kossoff, Eric H ^a,b   Pyzik, Paula L ^a   McGrogan, Jane R ^a   Vining, Eileen P G ^a   Freeman, John M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Infantile spasms; Ketogenic diet; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; KETOGENIC DIET; MALE; MORTALITY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SEIZURE; SELF REPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY PROTEINS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOD, FORMULATED; HUMANS; INFANT; KETOSIS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036246386     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.109.5.780     Document Type: Article

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