Long-term outcome and tolerability of the ketogenic diet in drug-resistant childhood epilepsy-the austrian experience

Seizure

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 404-408

  Dressler, Anastasia ^a   Stöcklin, Benjamin ^a,b   Reithofer, Eva ^a   Benninger, Franz ^a   Freilinger, Michael ^a   Hauser, Erwin ^a,c   Reiter Fink, Edith ^a   Seidl, Rainer ^a   Trimmel Schwahofer, Petra ^a   Feucht, Martha ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c State Hospital of Mödling   (Austria)

Author keywords

Childhood; Epilepsy; Ketogenic diet

Indexed keywords

SULTIAME; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KETOGENIC DIET; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THERAPY EFFECT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 77955983054     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2010.06.006     Document Type: Article

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