Nutritional intervention improves prognosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage patients undergoing aneurysmal clipping : a retrospective study.

Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a serious clinical event associated with high mortality and, among survivors, serious morbidity. Maintaining the muscle volume in SAH patients is essential, as rehabilitation is often required after intensive care. In this study, we investigated whether proper nutritional administration improved clinical outcomes based on patients laboratory data and level of activities of daily living.

Nutritional Intervention Facilitates Food Intake after Epilepsy Surgery.

Background: We investigated whether nutritional intervention affected food intake after epilepsy surgery and if intravenous infusions were required in patients with epilepsy. We hypothesized that postoperative food intake would be increased by nutritional intervention. The purpose of this study was to compare postoperative food intake in the periods before and after nutritional intervention.

Possible Role of High-Dose Barbiturates and Early Administration of Parenteral Ketogenic Diet for Reducing Development of Chronic Epilepsy in Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome: A Case Report.

We describe the efficacy of high-dose barbiturates and early administration of a parenteral ketogenic diet (KD) as initial treatments for acute status epilepticus (SE) in an 8-year-old girl with febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES). The patient was admitted to our hospital with refractory focal SE. Abundant epileptic discharges over the left frontal region were observed on electroencephalogram (EEG).