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Hyperhidrosis*

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Hyperhidrosis

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Humans ; Hyperhidrosis*

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Hyperhidrosis* ; Thoracotomy*

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Hyperhidrosis* ; Iontophoresis*

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Child* ; Humans ; Hyperhidrosis*

Prospective study on 26 patients with hyperhidrosis due to overactive sympathetic system treated at Department B12, Hospital No 103. Results: there were 3 patients with pleural adhesions discovered by ultrasound. Before operation, 69.2% patients had cold and wet hands, but after operation, 88.4% patients had warm hands. During operations, severe pleural adhesions were in 9.6% patients, and pulmonary tissue didn’t flatten completely in 19.2% patients. The mean time of operations was 16.45 minutes for each side. The time of unilateral sympathectomy of 10-15 minutes was most common. There were many advantages of endoscopic surgery because it can help to assess sympathetic ganglion chains, and give high rate of success (98.4%). Carlen's tube was used for tracheal intubation. Postoperative pleural drainage wasn’t used. Compensational hyperhidrosis occurred in 11.4% patients.
Hyperhidrosis ; Therapeutics ; Sympathectomy ; Endoscopy

Endoscopic symphathicotomy is an effective treatment for hyperhidrosis. Chylothorax is a rare but life-threatening complication. We recently encountered a case of chylothorax after endoscopic symphathicotomy at T2-T4 symphathetic nerve. We successfully treated chylothorax by electric cauterization with thoracic endoscopy.
Cautery ; Chylothorax* ; Endoscopy ; Hyperhidrosis

The result of compensatory sweating after surgical treatment for essential hyperhidrosis had problems in objectivity and validity because it mainly depended on the subjective symptoms of patients. Therefore, we tried to evaluate more precisely and objectively, the distribution and degree of compensatory sweating by D.I.T.I.(Digital Infrared Thermographic Imaging) with subjective symptoms.
Humans ; Hyperhidrosis ; Sweat* ; Sweating*

BACKGROUND: Thoracoscopic sympathicotomy is an effective treatment in essential hyperhidrosis. However,many patients suffer from compensatory hyperhidrosis. Compensatory hyperhidrosis is avery uncomfortable problem,but the mechanisms underlying compensatory hyperhidrosis are not completely understood. MATERIAL AND METHOD: From May 1999 to June 2001,25 cases of thoracoscopic sympathicotomy at the 2nd rib for facial hyperhidrosis and 116 cases of thoracoscopic sympathicotomy at the 3rd rib for palmar hyperhidrosis were performed in 141 patients.All of the patients were divided into noncompensatory sweating(NCS)and compensatory sweating(CS)group.Each group was investigated according to age,sex,body surface area(BSA), level of sympathicotomy and occupation. RESULT: The global rate of compensatory hyperhidorsis were 64.5%(91/141).There was no difference between the two groups for BSA,level of sympathicotomy and occupation.Mean age showed 23.2 years old in NCS group and 26.4 years old in CS group(p=0.09).In CS group,46 cases were male(50.5%)and 45 cases were female(49.5%)and in NCS group,19 cases were male(38.0%)and 31 cases were female(62.0%) (p=0.16). CONCLUSION: There were no available statistical data,but there was the fact that old age and male patients had the tendency for compensatory hyperhidrosis.If we have more patient group and consider the patient's family history or psychiatric pr obl ems ,we will have mor evaluable data for compensatory hyperhidrosis.
Humans ; Hyperhidrosis* ; Male ; Occupations ; Ribs