Renal stone associated with the ketogenic diet in a 5-year old girl with intractable epilepsy

Yonsei Medical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 457-459

  Choi, Ji Na ^a   Song, Ji Eun ^a   Shin, Jae Il ^a   Kim, Heung Dong ^a   Kim, Myung Joon ^a   Lee, Jae Seung ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Ketogenic diet; Renal stone

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CALCIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORIDE; CLONAZEPAM; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; KETONE; PLASMA PROTEIN; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; UREA; URIC ACID; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM URINE LEVEL; CARBON DIOXIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPERCALCIURIA; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; KETOGENIC DIET; KETONURIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOBECTOMY; MEDICAL HISTORY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KETOGENIC DIET; KIDNEY CALCULI;

EID: 77954254810     PISSN: 05135796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3349/ymj.2010.51.3.457     Document Type: Article

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