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Acute pancreatitis causing death in a child on the ketogenic diet.
Journal of child neurology - 1 Sept 2001
Stewart W A, Gordon K, Camfield P
Abstract excerpt
The ketogenic diet has demonstrated good efficacy in children with pharmacologically resistant seizures. Relatively few serious complications have been reported in the more than 70 years in which the diet has been used. We report a child who developed acute pancreatitis and died. A 9-year-old gir...
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