Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy
Volume 19, Issue 7 , Pages 404-408 , September 2010

Long-term outcome and tolerability of the ketogenic diet in drug-resistant childhood epilepsy—The Austrian experience

  • Anastasia Dressler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Vienna, Austria
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  • Benjamin Stöcklin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Vienna, Austria
    • Department of Neuropaediatrics, University Childrens Hospital Basel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Eva Reithofer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Franz Benninger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Michael Freilinger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Erwin Hauser

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Vienna, Austria
    • Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Mödling, Austria
    • ,
  • Edith Reiter-Fink

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Rainer Seidl

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Petra Trimmel-Schwahofer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Martha Feucht

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +43 1 40400 3232; fax: +43 1 40400 3260.

Received 26 March 2010 ,Revised 17 May 2010 ,Accepted 4 June 2010.

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PII: S1059-1311(10)00120-2

doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2010.06.006

Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy
Volume 19, Issue 7 , Pages 404-408 , September 2010

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