APPENDIX G
Selected References

GENERAL INFORMATION ON EPILEPSY

Freeman JM, Vining EPG, Pillas DJ. Seizures and epilepsy in childhood. 3rd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2002.

REFERENCES ON THE EFFECTIVENESS AND ACCEPTABILITY OF THE KETOGENIC DIET

Farasat S, Kossoff EH, Pillas DJ, Rubenstein JE, Vining EP, Freeman JM. The importance of cognition in parental expectations prior to starting the ketogenic diet. Epilepsy Behav 2006;8:406–410.

Freeman JM, Kossoff EH. Ketosis and the ketogenic diet: 2010. Adv Pediatrics 2010;57:315–329.

Freeman JM, Vining EPG. Seizures rapidly decrease after fasting: preliminary studies of the ketogenic diet. Arch Pediatr Adolesc 1999;153:946–949.

Freeman JM, Vining EPG, Pillas DJ, Pyzik PL, Casey JC, Kelly MT. The efficacy of the ketogenic diet—1998: a prospective evaluation of intervention in 150 children. Pediatrics 1998;102:1358–1363.

Gilbert DL, Pyzik PL, Vining EPG, Freeman JM. Medication cost reduction in children on the ketogenic diet: data from a prospective study of 150 children over one year. J Child Neurol 1999;14:469–471.

Hemingway C, Freeman JM, Pillas DJ, Pyzik PL. The Ketogenic Diet: A 3 to 6 year follow-up of 150 children enrolled prospectively. Pediatrics 2001;108:898–905.

Hong AM, Hamdy RF, Turner Z, Kossoff EH. Infantile spasms treated with the ketogenic diet: Prospective single-center experience in 104 consecutive infants. Epilepsia 2010;51:1403–1407.

Kim DW, Kang HC, Park JC, Kim HD. Benefits of the nonfasting ketogenic diet compared with the initial fasting ketogenic diet. Pediatrics 2004;114:1627–1630.

Kossoff EH. More fat and fewer seizures: Dietary therapy for epilepsy. Lancet Neurol 2004;3:415–420.

Kossoff EH, Hedderick EF, Turner Z, Freeman JM. A case-control evaluation of the ketogenic diet versus ACTH for new-onset infantile spasms. Epilepsia 2008;49:1504–1509.

Kossoff EH, Krauss GL, McGrogan JR, Freeman JM. Efficacy of the Atkins Diet as therapy for intractable epilepsy. Neurology 2003;61:1789–1791.

Kossoff EH, Laux LC, Blackford R, Morrison PF, Pyzik PL, Turner Z, Nordli DR, Jr. When do seizures improve with the ketogenic diet? Epilepsia 2008;49:329–333.

Kossoff EH, McGrogan JR. Worldwide use of the ketogenic diet. Epilepsia 2005;46:280–289.

Kossoff EH, Pyzik PL, McGrogan JR, Vining EPG, Freeman JM. Efficacy of the ketogenic diet for infantile spasms. Pediatrics 2002;109:780–783.

Kossoff EH, Rowley H, Sinha SR, Vining EPG. A prospective study of the modified Atkins diet for intractable epilepsy in adults. Epilepsia 2008;49:316–319.

Kossoff EH, Zupec-Kania BA, Rho JM. Ketogenic Diets: An update for child neurologists. J Child Neurol 2009;24:979–988.

Kossoff EH, Zupec-Kania BA, Amark PE, Ballaban-Gil KR, Bergqvist ACG, Blackford R, Buchhalter JR, Caraballo RH, Cross JH, Dahlin MG, Donner EJ, Jehle RS, Klepper J, Kim HD, Liu YMC, Nation J, Nordli, DR Jr, Pfeifer HH, Rho JM, Stafstrom CE, Thiele EA, Turner Z, Veggiotti P, Vining EPG, Wheless JW, Wirrell EC, Charlie Foundation, and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society. Optimal clinical management of children receiving the ketogenic diet: recommendations of the international ketogenic diet study group. Epilepsia 2009;50:304–317.

Mady MA, Kossoff EH, McGregor AL, Wheless JW, Pyzik PL, Freeman JM. The ketogenic diet: adolescents can do it, too. Epilepsia 2003;44:847–51.

McNally MA, Pyzik PL, Rubenstein JE, Hamdy RF, Kossoff EH. Empiric use of Oral Potassium Citrate Reduces Symptomatic Kidney Stone Incidence with the Ketogenic Diet. Pediatrics 2009;124:e300–e304.

Neal EG, Chaffe HM, Schwartz RH, Lawson M, Edwards N, Fitzsimmons G, Whitney A, Cross JH. The ketogenic diet in the treatment of epilepsy in children: a randomised, controlled trial. Lancet Neurol. 2008;7:500–506.

Nordli DR, Jr., Kuroda MM, Carroll J, et. al. Experience with the ketogenic diet in infants. Pediatrics 2001;108:129–133.

Patel A, Pyzik PL, Turner Z, Rubensetein JE, Kossoff EH. Long-term outcomes of children treated with the ketogenic diet in the past. Epilepsia 2010;51:1277–1282.

Pfeifer HH, Thiele EA. Low-glycemic-index treatment: a liberalized ketogenic diet for treatment of intractable epilepsy. Neurology 2005;65:1810–1812.

Rubenstein JE, Kossoff EH, Pyzik PL, Vining EPG, McGrogan JR, Freeman JM. Experience in the use of the ketogenic diet as early therapy. J Child Neurol 2005;20:31–34.

Than KD, Kossoff EH, Rubenstein JE, Pyzik PL, McGrogan JR, Vining EPG. Can you predict an immediate, complete, and sustained response to the ketogenic diet? Epilepsia 2005;46:580–582.

Vining EPG, Freeman JM, for the Ketogenic Diet Study Group. A multi-center study of the efficacy of the ketogenic diet. Arch Neurol 1998;55:1433–1437.

Wheless JW. The Ketogenic Diet: An effective medical therapy with side effects. J Child Neurol 2001;16:633–635.

THE MEDIUM-CHAIN TRIGLYCERIDE (MCT) DIET

Huttenlocher PR, Wilbourn AJ, Signore JM. Medium-chain triglycerides as a therapy for intractable epilepsy. Neurology 1971;21:1097–1103.

Sills MA, Forsyth WI, Haidukwych D. The medium-chain triglyceride diet and intractable epilepsy. Arch Disease in Childhood 1986:1169–1172.

Trauner, DA. Medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) diet in intractable seizure disorders. Neurology 1985:237–238.

OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST

Bowden Jonny. Living the low carb life. Sterling, New York, 2004.

The CalorieKing Calorie, fat and carbohydrate counter 2011. Family Health Publications, Costa Mesa, CA, 2011.

Sndyer Deborah. Keto kid. Demos, New York, 2007.

Stafstrom C, Rho J, editors. Epilepsy and the ketogenic diet. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2004.

Westman EC, Phinney SD, Volek JS. The new Atkins for a new you. Fireside, New York, 2010.