Over the past decade, there has been renewed interest in the KD for those patients whose epilepsy is refractory to standard anticonvulsant therapy. Although the KD has met with some success, effectiveness depends on a working knowledge of the diet by all health care providers, proper patient ...
ketogenic dietPurpose/Aim Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a hereditary connective tissue disease. Epilepsy is not a common neurological finding in EDS. Here we report a pediatric patient with EDS comorbid with STXBP1 related epileptic encephalopathy as 'electrical status epilepticus during slow-wave ...
Background and Aims: Ketogenic diet is currently a therapeutic option for the treatment of epilepsy other than anticonvulsant drugs, for which there is a growing interest in Europe and worldwide, mainly due to the persisting number of refractory patients and the adverse side effects of ...
The ketogenic diet (KD) - a high-fat, low-carbohydrate treatment for medically refractory epilepsy - has been suggested as an alternative strategy to inhibit tumor growth by altering intrinsic metabolism, especially by inducing glycopenia. Methods Here, we examined the effects of an experimental KD...
Elizabeth Thiele, M.D., Ph.D, Director of the Pediatric epilepsy program at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has created a diet which is based on the Glycemic Index. It's called the Low Glycemic Index Treatment (LGIT). This diet is a little less restrictive. ...
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- 《Pediatric Neurology》 被引量: 5发表: 2015年 Efficacy of the ketogenic diet as a therapy for intractable epilepsy in children Objective: To determine the role of ketogenic diet in the treatment of intractable epilepsy in children.Materials & Methods: Sixty six consecutive children... MS ...
and coined the term “ketogenic diet”.8In particular, the KD can mimic the metabolic effects of fasting without significant calorie deprivation. The KD enjoyed wide popularity as a medical approach for treating epilepsy for nearly a decade before the introduction of antiepileptic agents, such as ...
Results Seventeen parents (10 mothers and 7 fathers) of 12 children with epilepsy participated. At the time of the interview, parents had experienced an average of 25 months of ketogenic diet treatment for their child (range 2 months to 98 months). Half of the caregivers learned about the ...
epilepsy surgeryObjective Patients with Drug Resistant Epilepsy (DRE) pose considerable management challenges for patients, their families and providers. Both the Vagus Nerve Stimulator (VNS) and the Ketogenic Diet (KD) have been shown to be safe and effective in treating DRE. Nevertheless, ...