NCT02216500Recruiting
Ketogenic Therapy Effects on Electrical and Metabolic Abnormalities in Epilepsy
Precision Ketogenic Therapy Effects on Electrical and Metabolic Abnormalities in Epilepsy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 17 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Approximately a fourth of children with seizures do not respond adequately to available therapy. Ketogenic therapy has a long history as treatment for intractable epilepsy, but there is no agreement concerning how it works and what is the best way to administer it. This natural history study will collect data pertaining to both questions.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 400 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 12 Aug 2014
- Start date
- Sept 2006
- Primary completion date
- Oct 2030
- Lead sponsor
- University of Florida
- Diseases
- Epilepsy
- NCT number
- NCT02216500
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 400
- From Sept 2006 to the primary completion date, Oct 2030
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Patients at risk of being non-compliant with administration of the therapy and with record keeping
Other
- Patients with lab tests consistent with the inability to metabolize a high fat and low carbohydrate diet
Who the study is looking for
- Patients whose physician has prescribed the ketogenic diet
- Patients with lab tests consistent with the ability to metabolize a high fat and low carbohydrate diet
- Patients that can be compliant with administration of the therapy and with record keeping.
Age in the registry: - to 50 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gainesville | United States | Recruiting |
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