objective the aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of a modified atkins diet for intractable childhood epilepsy. materials & methods twenty one children with medically intractable epilepsy were enrolled in the study. inclusion criteria were at least four seizures per month and a trial of at least three anticonvulsants without becoming seizure-free. the subjects...

background: epilepsy is the second common neurologic disorder. although many antiepileptic drugs have been formulated to control the seizures, but not all seizures have been controlled by them. uncontrolled epilepsy can actually reduce the patients’ quality of life. objectives: identifying the proportion of adult intractable epilepsy among epileptic patients in an area in the north east of iran...

how to cite this article: gunawan pi, lusiana l, saharso d. hemispherectomy procedure in proteus syndrome. iran j child neurol.summer 2016; 10(3):86-90   objective proteus syndrome is a rare overgrowth disorder including bone, soft tissue, and skin. central nervous system manifestations were reported in about 40% of the patients including hemimegalencephaly and the resultant hemicranial hyperpl...

how to cite this article: ghazavi a, tonekaboni sh, karimzadeh p, nikibakhsh aa, khajeh a, fayyazi a. the ketogenic and atkins diets effect on intractable epilepsy: a comparison. iran j child neurol. 2014 summer;8(3): 12-17. abstract objective intractable epilepsy is a major difficulty in child neurology, because the numbers of drugs that are available for treatment are limited and new treatmen...

Intractable epilepsy is a common clinical problem in pediatrics and approximately 13% of children with epilepsy experience intractable seizures. To determine the efficacy of pyridoxine in treating seizures, 30 infants and children with recurrent seizures were enrolled in the present study. All of them were treated with high-dose oral pyridoxine (40 mg/kg/day), as an adjunct to antiepileptic...

intractable epilepsy is a common clinical problem in pediatrics and approximately 13% of children with epilepsy experience intractable seizures. to determine the efficacy of pyridoxine in treating seizures, 30 infants and children with recurrent seizures were enrolled in the present study. all of them were treated with high-dose oral pyridoxine (40 mg/kg/day), as an adjunct to antiepileptic dru...

post-traumatic epileptic seizure is a common complication of brain trauma including military injuries. we present clinical characteristics and correlates of post-traumatic epilepsy in 163 head-injured veterans suffering from intractable epilepsy due to blunt or penetrating head injuries sustained during the iraq-iran war. the medical records of 163 war veterans who were admitted by the epilepsy...

OBJECTIVE Intractable epilepsy is a serious neurologic problem with different etiologies. Decreased levels of pyridoxal phosphate in cerebral spinal fluid of patients with intractable epilepsy due to pyridoxine dependency epilepsy are reported. The aim of this study was to compare plasma pyridoxal 5´-phosphate level in patients with intractable and controlled epilepsy. MATERIALS & METHODS Thi...