Ketogenic Diet: An Early Option for Epilepsy Treatment, Instead of A Last Choice Only

Ketogenic diet (KD) was usually tried as a last resort in the treatment of intractable epilepsy after failure of many antiepileptics and even epilepsy surgery. Glucose transporter-1 deficiency and pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency must be treated with KD as the first choice because of inborn errors...

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Main Authors: Huei-Shyong Wang, Kuang-Lin Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-02-01
Series:Biomedical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.biomedj.org/article.asp?issn=2319-4170;year=2013;volume=36;issue=1;spage=16;epage=17;aulast=Wang