Journal:
:iranian journal of child neurology
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seyed alireza mirjavadi resident of pediatrics,pediatric neurology research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences,tehran,iran
seyed hassan tonekaboni associate professor of pediatric neurology, pediatric neurology research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran
mohammadreza ghazavi assistant professor, esfahan university of medical sciences, esfahan, iran
eznollah azargashb assistant professor, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran
fatemeh abdollah gorji msc., research consultant, mofid children’s hospital, clinical research of development center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran
mohammad ghofrani professor of pediatric neurology, pediatric neurology research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran
objective to determine the role of ketogenic diet in the treatment of intractable epilepsy in children. materials & methods sixty six consecutive children (1-16 years old) with intractable epilepsy whose seizure were not neurodegenerative nor febrile in origin were recruited. they received the ketogenic diet and we evaluated its effect on seizure frequency for 3 months. all these children had m...