Infantile spasms treated with the ketogenic diet: Prospective single-center experience in 104 consecutive infants

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1403-1407

  Hong, Amanda M ^a   Turner, Zahava ^b   Hamdy, Rana F ^b   Kossoff, Eric H ^b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c John M Freeman Pediatric Epilepsy Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Epilepsy; Infantile spasms; Infants; Ketogenic; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOSTEROID; OXCARBAZEPINE; PREDNISOLONE; TOPIRAMATE; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

ARTICLE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; KETOGENIC DIET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PARENTAL CONSENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DIET THERAPY; METABOLISM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KETOGENIC DIET; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 77955318172     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02586.x     Document Type: Article

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