RESUMOIntrodução: A epilepsia é um problema de saúde pública. Afeta mais de cinqüenta milhões de pessoas em todo mundo e mais de vinte milhões deles continuam apresentando crises que não controlam satisfatoriamente com o uso de medicamentos. As epilepsias refratárias correspondem a cerca de 20% dos pacientes epilépticos e boa parte desses apresentam crises parciais complexas passíveis de tratamento cirúrgico. A indicação cirúrgica criteriosa tem se mostrado eficiente para o controle das crises. Objetivo: Apresentar dados epidemiológicos e cirúrgicos dos pacientes submetidos ao tratamento cirúrgico no NATE. Metodologia: Estudo retrospectivo com análise de prontuários e classificação do controle de crises de 46 pacientes considerando a Escala de Engel. Resultados: Predomina o sexo masculino, solteiros, sem história familiar para epilepsia. Pacientes procedentes do Estado de Minas Gerais e outros estados da união. Início das crises na infância para 58,8% dos pacientes sendo o tipo de crise mais freqüente a crise parcial complexa. O déficit de memória foi a queixa cognitiva mais comum. Conclusão: O controle de crise foi compatível com Engel Ia (sem crise) para 67% dos pacientes. O tratamento cirúrgico revelou-se eficiente para o controle das crises dos pacientes portadores de epilepsia refratária ao tratamento medicamentoso.Unitermos: epilepsia refratária, tratamento cirúrgico, controle de crises. ABSTRACT Refractory epilepsy: the experience of the NATE Introduction:Epilepsy is a health public problem. Afflicts more than 50 million people worldwide, and more than 20 million of those affected do not have satisfactory seizures control with medicine. The refractory epilepsy represents 20% of all epileptic patients and most of them present partial seizures which can be treated by surgical treatment. The careful surgical recommendation can be efficient to seizure control. Purpose: The aim of this study was to present epidemiological and surgical data about patients submitted to surgical treatment in NATE -Advanced Center of Epilepsy Treatment. Method: We used a retrospective assessment method and control seizure classification from Engel Scale for 46 epileptic patients submitted to surgical treatment. Results: Our results showed predominant male patients, single, without family history for epilepsy. The patients were from cities of Minas Gerais State and from another States in Brazil. The first seizure occurred in the childhood for 58,8% of patients and the more frequent seizure type was complex partial seizure. The predominant cognitive complaint was about memory. Conclusion: The surgical treatment for seizure control was good for 67% of patients that display Engel Ia classification (without seizures) and has a high likelihood for success in medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy.
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