ArticleNeurocritical care2011
The ketogenic diet for medically and surgically refractory status epilepticus in the neurocritical care unit.
Article in Neurocritical care, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Feasibility and Tolerability of the Ketogenic Diet in the Treatment of Refractory Status Epilepticus in a Neurointensive Care Unit.
Keto-diet for Intubated Critical Care COVID-19 (KICC-COVID19)
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Ketogenic Diet for Intensive Care Patients: A Scoping Review.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Modified Atkins Diet in Adolescents and Adults with Drug Resistant Epilepsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of epilepsy research · 2024Review
- Glycolytic lactate production supports status epilepticus in experimental animals.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2023Article
- Ketogenic diet for super-refractory status epilepticus (SRSE) with NORSE and FIRES: Single tertiary center experience and literature data.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Changes in lipids and inflammation in adults with super-refractory status epilepticus on a ketogenic diet.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2023Article
- Lidocaine as a potential therapeutic option for super-refractory status epilepticus: A case report.Journal of central nervous system disease · 2023Article
- Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus: Prognosis and Recent Advances in Management.Aging and disease · 2021Review
- Treatment of Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus: A Review.Epilepsy currents · 2021Article
- Ketogenic Diet Therapies for Seizures and Status Epilepticus.Seminars in neurology · 2020Review
- Therapeutic Use of the Ketogenic Diet in Refractory Epilepsy: What We Know and What Still Needs to Be Learned.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Medium-chain triglyceride ketogenic diet is effective for treatment of an adult with super-refractory status epilepticus: a case report and literature review.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Review
- Ketogenic Diet as a Treatment for Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus in Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Article
- Therapeutic augmentation of ketogenic diet with a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor in a super-refractory status epilepticus patient.Epilepsy & behavior case reports · 2018Article
- Updates in Refractory Status Epilepticus.Critical care research and practice · 2018Review
- Acute Resective Surgery for the Treatment of Refractory Status Epilepticus.Neurocritical care · 2017Article
- The collective therapeutic potential of cerebral ketone metabolism in traumatic brain injury.Journal of lipid research · 2014Review
- Article
- Dietary treatment of intractable epilepsy.Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.) · 2013Review
- Treatment of Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Pediatric Patients.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAGReview
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundRefractory status epilepticus carries a high risk of morbidity and mortality despite, and at times as a result of, aggressive pharmacologic interventions. Dietary therapies have been used for almost a century in children for controlling medically refractory seizures and status epilepticus and recent studies suggest efficacy and safety in adults as well.
methodsCase report and literature review.
resultsWe describe a case of medically and surgically refractory status epilepticus that was controlled after initiation of the ketogenic diet and maintenance with the modified Atkins diet in an adult in the neurocritical care unit.
conclusionsDietary therapy should be considered as a treatment option in adult patients with refractory status epilepticus.
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