Seizure control and biochemical profile on the ketogenic diet in young children with refractory epilepsy-Indian experience

Seizure

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 446-449

  Sharma, Suvasini ^a   Gulati, Sheffali ^a   Kalra, Veena ^a   Agarwala, Anuja ^a   Kabra, Madhulika ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Catastrophic epilepsy; Diet therapy; Epileptic encephalopathy; Ketosis; Seizures; Severe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CITRATE POTASSIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CREATININE; LIPID; SERUM ALBUMIN; UREA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BIOCHEMISTRY; CALCIUM URINE LEVEL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EDEMA; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INDIA; INFANT; INFECTION; KETOGENIC DIET; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MORBIDITY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGE OF ONSET; CALCIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATININE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; KETOGENIC DIET; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349177032     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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