- Case Report
- A Case of Infantile Spasm Associated with Acute Renal Failure and
Kwashiorkor after Ketogenic Diet
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Young-Myoung Kim, Tae-Hong Kim, Jin-A Jung, Kyu-Geun Hwang
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Clin Exp Pediatr. 2003;46(11):1131-1134. Published online November 15, 2003
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The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-protein, low-carbohydrate diet developed in the 1920s for the treatment of difficult-to-control seizures. Despite advances in both the pharmacotherapy and the surgery of epilepsy, many children continue to have difficult-to-control seizures. In this situation, a ketogenic diet should be considered as an alternative therapy. However, less attention has been paid to associated adverse events... |
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