[Long chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coA dehydrogenase deficiency, association with HELLP and magnetic resonance spectroscopy findings].

LCHAD deficiency is a disorder of fatty acid beta oxidation. The most common clinical presentation includes disorders of consciousness, hypoglycemia and liver dysfunction triggered by prolonged fasting or infection. Once a metabolic crisis is triggered, there is a high mortality.

Long-term follow-up of the ketogenic diet for refractory epilepsy: multicenter Argentinean experience in 216 pediatric patients.

Purpose: In this Argentinean retrospective, collaborative, multicenter study, we examine the efficacy and tolerability of the ketogenic diet (KD) for different epilepsy syndromes.

Materials And Methods: we evaluated the clinical records of 216 patients started on the KD between March 1, 1990 and December 31, 2010.

Results: One hundred forty of the initial patients (65%) remained on the diet at the end of the study period.