title: CSF Amino Acids, Pterins and Mechanism of the Ketogenic Diet.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
authors.forename: J Gordon
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-0173-7931
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Millichap
keywords: Amino Acids; Ketogenic Diet; Neurotransmitters; Pterins; Refractory Epilepsy