Abstract
Available pharmacologic treatments for seizures are limited in their efficacy. For a patient with seizures, pharmacologic treatment with available anticonvulsant medications leads to seizure control in <70% of patients. Surgical resection can lead to control in a select subset of patients but still leaves a significant number of patients with uncontrolled seizures. The ketogenic diet and related diets have proven to be useful in pharmacoresistant childhood epilepsy.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 621-628 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Expert review of neurotherapeutics |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 1 2015 |
Keywords
- GLUT-1 deficiency
- MCT diet
- doose syndrome
- epilepsy
- infantile spasms
- ketogenic
- lennox-gastaut syndrome
- low glycemic index diet
- modified atkins diet
- seizures
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neuroscience(all)
- Clinical Neurology
- Pharmacology (medical)