Mary Shaker Zakher <br/><br/>
The role of ketogenic diet in treating children with intractable epilepsy /  
 دور الغذاء الكيتوني في علاج حالات الصرع المستعصي عند الاطفال  
Mary Shaker Zakher ; Supervised Ahmed Aly Elayady , Laila Abd Elmotaleb Selim , Marian Youssry Fahmy 
 - Cairo :   Mary Shaker Zakher ,   2014 
 - 141 P. :   facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics 
<br/><br/> Ketogenic diet is a non-pharmacologic treatment for childhood epilepsy not responding to drugs.  This is a prospective study conducted to measure the efficacy and tolerability of the ketogenic diet in children with intractable epilepsy. Twenty eight children were treated with the KD at The Childrens Hospital at Cairo University between December 2012 and March 2014, and had continuous follow-up of 6 months after initiation of the KD. Our results emphasized that, treatment with the classic Ketogenic Diet is associated with a substantial decrease in seizure frequency in some children with difficult-to control seizures. Low compliance rate was also reported with diet intolerability was the main reason behind diet discontinuation rather than the adverse effects  
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Childhood epilepsy  Intractable epilepsy  ketogenic diet