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The Use of Ketogenic Diet in Pediatric Patients with Epilepsy

A ketogenic diet is a nonpharmacologic treatment strategy to control refractory epilepsy in children. Although this diet has been used successfully to reduce seizures since the 1920s, the anticonvulsant mechanism of ketosis remains unknown. The initiation of the diet requires an average four-day hos...

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Autores principales: Misiewicz Runyon, Amanda, So, Tsz-Yin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scholarly Research Network 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3434405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22970384
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/263139