HYPOTHESIS Video-assisted thoracic surgery sympathectomy is efficacious for patients with hyperhidrosis. DESIGN An experience with patients undergoing bilateral video-assisted thoracic surgery sympathectomy was reviewed to evaluate the operative technique and to determine morbidity and outcomes. SETTING Academic health center. PATIENTS The cohort included 31 patients (22 women and 9 men)....

The examination of a piece of kidney cortex taken during sympathectomy for hypertension affords a method of studying the pathological changes during life. The present study has been undertaken to see if the severity of the vascular changes influenced the response to sympathectomy and other surgical methods for the lowering of blood pressure in patients with hypertension. Several other features ...

BACKGROUND Air embolism is a relatively rare complication of thoracoscopic surgery. METHODS Open supraclavicular sympathectomy was indicated to overcome the risk of re-embolization. A novel video-assisted technique was performed. conclusions: The previously prevalent open supraclavicular sympathectomy is a good choice for avoiding air embolism. Laparoscopic instrumentation and technology can ...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this retrospective study was to evaluate the outcomes of bilateral video-assisted thoracoscopic sympathectomy for primary hyperhydrosis. METHODS Between January 2007 and December 2011, a total of 335 patients (192 male, 143 female, mean age 28.3 years) who underwent bilateral thoracoscopic sympathectomy for primary hyperhydrosis were reviewed retrospectively. RESULTS H...

Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the results of periarterial digital sympathectomy in cases of severe ischaemia of digits manifesting as digital ulceration and ischemic pain refractory to medical treatments. Methods: We reviewed all digital sympathectomise performed at our vascular unit between 20062014. Demographics and outcomes were analyzed along with review of literat...

The sympathetic nervous system controls bone remodeling by regulating bone formation and resorption. How nerves and bone cells influence each other remains elusive. Here we modulated the content or activity of the neuropeptide Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide to investigate nerve-bone cell interplays in the mandible periosteum by assessing factors involved in nerve and bone behaviors. Young adult ...

The accelerated ("malignant") phase of hypertensive vascular disease is more common in men; sympathectomy may modify some of its signs and symptoms even in those cases in which hyper-tension is not modified. Six instances are reported herewith in which patients in the accelerated phase have developed retinopathy and papilledema during a sustained period of normal blood pressure brought on by a ...

Objective: This prospective study aimed at investigating predictive factors for compensatory sweating after thoracoscopic sympathectomy. Methods: From 2000 to 2002, 80 patients (53 females and 27 males) underwent thoracoscopic sympathectomy to treat hyperhidrosis. Patient ages ranged from 12 to 56 years, and the mean postoperative follow-up period was 42.51 ± 5.98 months. Patient satisfaction w...

Neonatal sympathectomy using a combined treatment with antiserum to nerve growth factor and guanethidine during the first 4 weeks after birth was carried out in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. Bilateral adrenal demedullation was performed in 4-week-old sympathectomized SHR and WKY rats. The development of hypertension in SHR was prevented by sympa...

exposure to stress leads to physiological changes called “stress response” which are the result of the changes in the adrenomedullary hormone system, hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (hpa) and sympathetic nervous system (sns) activity. in the present study, the effects of chronic physical and psychological stress and also the role of sympathetic system effects in stress on ischemia/reperfusion (i...