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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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Main Authors: Misiewicz Runyon, Amanda, So, Tsz-Yin
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: International Scholarly Research Network 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3434405/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22970384
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/263139
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