The ketogenic diet in pharmacoresistant childhood epilepsy

Steven Parrish Winesett; Stacey Kordecki Bessone; Eric H.W. Kossoff

doi:10.1586/14737175.2015.1044982

The ketogenic diet in pharmacoresistant childhood epilepsy

Steven Parrish Winesett, Stacey Kordecki Bessone, Eric H.W. Kossoff

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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)
Pages (from-to)	621-628
Number of pages	8
Journal	Expert review of neurotherapeutics
Volume	15
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1586/14737175.2015.1044982
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

General Neuroscience
Clinical Neurology
Pharmacology (medical)

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