Avalia？？o da arquitetura do sono em crian？as com epilepsia refratária

abstract introduction: there has been a growing interest in the relations between sleep and epilepsy, kindled by the realization that there are many potentially relevant two-way interactions. even though the hyper-synchronizing role of sleep and its attending increase in the probability of seizure generation are well known, the degree to which sleep may facilitate or induce epileptogenic phenomena in lesional epilepsies remains unclear. the lesional epilepsies seems to have intrinsic epileptogenic properties and the knowledge about sleep macro and microarchiteture could help clinician to anticipate and monitor sleep-related epileptic phenomena according to the etiology of the epilepsy objective: discuss the relationship between sleep and epilepsy in childhood and adolescence. methods: literature review in journals indexed through medline, from the last 15 years. conclusion: refractory epilepsy during childhood influences sleep organization mainly in patients with lesional etiology. the definition of the type of epilepsy is important to anticipate sleep disorders in this population.