Pediatric Neurology Briefs (Nov 2015)

CSF Amino Acids, Pterins and Mechanism of the Ketogenic Diet

  • J. Gordon Millichap

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-29-10-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 10

Abstract

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Investigators from Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain, studied the relationship between the etiology of refractory childhood epilepsy, CSF neurotransmitters, pterins, and amino acids, and response to a ketogenic diet in 60 patients with refractory epilepsy, 83% focal and 52% idiopathic.

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