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| | Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Sympathectomy itself is relatively easy to perform, however accessing the nerve tissue in the chest cavity by conventional surgical methods was difficult, painful, and spawned several different approaches. | | | The development of endoscopic "minimally invasive" surgical techniques have made possible the mass-marketing of sympathectomy, and today ETS surgery is practiced in many countries throughout the industrial world. | | | Since the sympathetic nervous system was well known to affect many body systems, the surgery was performed in attempts to treat many conditions, including idiocy, goiter, epilepsy, glaucoma, and angina pectoris. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoscopic_thoracic_sympathectomy
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| | Sympathectomy |
| | After a sympathectomy done by inserting an endoscope in the chest cavity, patients may experience chest pain with deep breathing. | | | Sympathectomy is most likely to be effective in relieving the pain of reflex sympathetic dystrophy if it is done soon after the injury occurs. | | | Sympathectomy may be helpful in treating reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), a condition that sometimes develops after injury. |
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http://www.rwjhamilton.org/Atoz/ency/sympathectomy.asp
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| | Treatment of Hyperhidrosis in India ( ETS ) |
| | Sympathectomy involves the surgical destruction of the ganglia responsible for hyperhidrosis. | | | In addition to pharmacologic therapy, other treatments include surgical sympathectomy, surgical excision of the affected areas, and subcutaneous liposuction. | | | In New Delhi, India, Minimal Access Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Thoracoscopic Surgery, VATS ( Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery), and ETS ( Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy) are terms used to describe the modality of procedure that is done to interrupt the sympathetic nerve chain as a treatment for Hyperhidrosis of face, palms and axilla ( arm pit). |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ar/laparoscopy/Hyperhidrosis.html
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| | sympathectomy history & review as it relates to excessive sweating. endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy |
| | Beside the refinements in the surgical approaches there is also debate with reguard to the exact level of the sympathectomy. | | | From those above mentioned techniques the last one does have the posibility of reversal in case the patient is unhappy with the operative results. | | | Now a days arthroscopic surgery enables athletes to resume their activities within a very short time. |
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http://www.excessive-sweating.net/sympathectomy_history.html
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| | Articles - Sympathectomy performed for Raynauds Disease |
| | Thoracic sympathectomy has been substantially improved with the use of VAT, which offers better exposure and visualization of the anatomical structures with less surgical trauma. | | | Medical treatment and local tissue care are usually unsuccessful, and in this subset of patients, sympathectomy can represent an effective procedure to control pain, to help ulcer healing, and to prevent or delay amputation. | | | Pain control, ulcer healing, and demarcation of necrosis appear to be much more related to post surgical correction of abnormal arteriovenous shunting and to improved nutritional blood flow to ischemic areas than to the increase of total blood flow [9]. |
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http://www.hyperhidrosis-usa.com/article_ulischemia3.html
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| | Addenbrooke's NHS Trust: Sympathectomy for hyperhidrosis |
| | Sympathectomy is a surgical technique that aims to destroy part of the nerve supply to the sweat glands in the skin. | | | During the operation, there is a rare risk (less than 1%) of failure of the lung to re-expand, which would need a chest drain to be placed in the short term. | | | The sympathetic nerve supply to the arms and hands comes from inside the chest, which used to make it difficult for surgeons to reach easily. |
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http://www.addenbrookes.org.uk/serv/clin/surg/vascular/sympathectomy1.html
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| | Sympathectomy Failure |
| | Because sympathectomy results in immediate relief in the first few months, the patient has less inclination or motivation to exercise and help improve the circulation of the extremity. | | | Whereas the neiospinothalamic tract is quite consistent in its anatomical pattern, the sympathetic nerves and plexi are phylogenetically old, and show a marked individual variability in humans. | | | If the patient suffering from RSD has a short life expectancy (less than 5 years), then sympathectomy makes sense and should be done. |
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http://www.rsdrx.com/sympathectomy_failure.htm
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| | sympathectomy - General Practice Notebook |
| | Sympathectomy may relieve rest pain by dilating vessels in the skin and so, encouraging cutaneous blood flow. | | | The technique may be performed by surgical excision of part of the lumbar sympathetic chain, or by translumbar injection of 6% aqueous phenol. | | | The technique may be helpful in healing ulcers where ischaemia is present with some other factor such as chronic venous insufficiency. |
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http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/cache/1053818901.htm
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| | Endoscopic Sympathectomy for Hyperhidrosis |
| | Sympathectomy is a surgical procedure during which segments of the sympathetic nerve pathways are cut. | | | Traditional sympathectomy operations [upper thoracic (T2) ganglionectomies] are clearly effective at treating palmar hyperhidrosis. | | | A tube is inserted through a small incision in the chest, and the surgeon uses a tiny instrument to sever a precise nerve. |
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http://www.columbiathoracic.org/dd_hydrosis_endoscopic.html
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| | Krasna - Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy |
| | Dorsal sympathectomy or thoracic sympathectomy is usually performed for relief of hyperhidrosis, reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), Raynaud's disease, and upper extremity ischemia, among other indications. | | | Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy (ETS) has been proved to be a safe technique, and the results in hyperhidrosis are rewarding, with a success rate of approximately 95% in most large series. | | | Surgical interruption of intrathoracic autonomic neural pathways has several useful clinical applications, particularly thoracic sympathectomy for upper limb hyperhidrosis and splanchnicectomy for relief of pancreatic pain. |
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http://www.ctsnet.org/doc/6527
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| | Sympathectomy for neuropathic pain (Cochrane Review) |
| | Secondary objectives were to compare the effects of sympathectomy with no treatment, placebo or conventional treatment, and to evaluate whether the technique of sympathectomy influences the outcomes of the procedure. | | | Citation: Mailis A, Furlan A. Sympathectomy for neuropathic pain. | | | Therefore, more clinical trials of sympathectomy are required to establish the overall effectiveness and potential risks of this procedure. |
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http://www.update-software.com/abstracts/ab002918.htm
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| | excessive sweating & hyperhidrosis definitions and terms glossary |
| | When the sympathectomy was done in the open technique it used to happen more than at present time when sympathectomy is being done endoscopically. | | | This is a subjective feeling that some patients describe when they talk about heat sensation in their head area. | | | A medical term used to denote the presense of air within the chest cavity, in between the lung and the chest wall. |
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http://www.excessive-sweating.net/hyperhidrosis_definitions.html
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| | American Sympathectomy Institute |
| | Thoracic sympathectomy has been used in the treatment of palmar (hand), plantar (foot) and axillary (armpit) hyperhidrosis, reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and chronic abdominal pain. | | | Physicians at the American Sympathectomy Institute are pioneers in adapting videoscopic techniques to chest and lung procedures and have performed more of these procedures than any other hospital in the region. | | | While every surgical procedure has some degree of risk associated with it, thoracoscopic sympathectomy, when performed by an experienced, skilled surgeon, is a very safe procedure with minimal side effects. |
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http://www.sympathectomy.org
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| | Thermography Part- II |
| | The sympathectomy results in partial hyperthermia, with compensatory contralateral extremity hypothermia, this result in the spread of pain in the contralateral extremity. | | | The study was limited to the role of ITI in the management of complex chronic pain syndrome. | | | Baron R, Maier C: Reflex sympathetic dystrophy, skin blood flow, sympathetic vasoconstrictor reflexes, and pain before and after surgical sympathectomy. |
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http://www.rsdrx.com/thermography_part-_ii.htm
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| | Endoscopic Transthoracic Sympathectomy |
| | The endoscopic technique is very safe, if performed by a surgeon familiar with this type of procedure, and leads to definitive cure in nearly 100% of patients. | | | In the past years, this technique has been developed in Europe (much of the technical refinement and scientific work-up having been performed by the surgeons of the hospital of Boras in Sweden), superseeding definitely the conventional techniques of Open sympathectomy which implicated long periods of hospitalization and recovery. | | | Sympathectomy cures palmar hyperhidrosis definitively in almost all (>99%). |
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http://www.parsec.it/summit/sympat1e.htm
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| | sympathectomy? |
| | The medical literature does describe some success with lumbar sympathectomies in patients with gangrenous toes in an attempt to increase blood flow to allow healing of the ulcers. | | | I understand your concern about jumping into a surgical procedure because of your past medical history. | | | THere has been more research looking at this procedure for poor circulation in the hands due to Raynauds. |
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http://www.medhelp.org/forums/neuro/messages/31541a.html
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| | Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy. |
| | Minimally invasive thoracoscopic sympathectomy procedures are useful in treating sympathetically mediated disorders, and the results indicate that the procedure is associated with reduced morbidity and similar outcome when compared with results obtained after open surgery. | | | The more traditional surgical procedures for these conditions were highly invasive and caused significant morbidity, but the minimally invasive thoracoscopic procedure provides detailed visualization of the sympathetic ganglia and is associated with minimal postoperative morbidity. | | | Thoracic sympathectomy has evolved as a treatment option for patients with hyperhidrosis and pain disorders. |
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http://www.spineuniverse.com/1p/ejournal/061400johnson_sympathectomy.html
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| | HYPERHIDROSIS or excessive sweating |
| | New surgical techniques have dramatically reduced the discomfort and healing time for those patients considering sympathectomy. | | | That is a individual decision based upon how much Hyperhidrosis affects quality of life and understanding the risks and benefits of surgery. | | | There is no resarch at all on this subject and no scientific sound evidence is available. |
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http://sympathectomy.info
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| | Hyperhidrosis, a treatment for the cure of hand sweating, facial sweating and blushing |
| | He has more than 13 years experience in sympathectomies having moved from the open method of lumbar sympathectomies done for vascular disorders to thoracoscopic procedure with clip instead of cutting for HH and FB. | | | During the past 22 years, he has performed over 6,000 sympathectomy procedures on patients with severe sweating of the hands, underarms and feet. | | | He has developed an outstanding thoracic practice in Manhattan with an emphasis on thoracic oncology but also a significant experience in treating other general thoracic disorders especially sympathectomy for palmar hyperhidrosis. |
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http://www.hyperhidrosis.com
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| | Vascular: Radical Sympathectomy |
| | This technique involves stripping the adventitia from the affected vessels, which both removes the sympathetic nerve innervation (preventing nerve mediated vessel constriction) and externally decompresses the vessels, allowing dilation of the vessel lumen. | | | This patient was treated on O'Brien's service and shows some of the difficulties associated with this procedure. | | | Periarterial sympathectomy is one approach to this problem. |
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http://www.eatonhand.com/img/14385.htm
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| | Videoassistierte thorakoskopische Sympathektomie: Indikationsspektrum und eigene Resultate (1995-1997) (Video-assisted ... |
| | Introduction: Video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) sympathectomy is the most frequently used technique for surgical sympathectomy of the upper limbs. | | | Although experience with angina pectoris is still limited, thoracoscopic sympathectomy seems to be a valuable alternative in otherwise inoperable cases. | | | In upper-extremity vascular diseases the operation can be performed as a last therapeutic option, but relapse often occurs in these patients. |
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http://www.smw.ch/archive/1999/129-26-363-99.html
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| | hyperhidrosis, sweaty palms, sweat, excessive sweat, sweatypalms, endoscopic, endoscopic sympathectomy, endoscopic ... |
| | A procedure known as dorsal sympathectomy, done through a very large chest or back incision had been applied for many years as a treatment for hyperhidrosis. | | | Recent developments have made a painful and complicated sympathectomy a thing of the past. | | | hyperhidrosis, sweaty palms, sweat, excessive sweat, sweatypalms, endoscopic, endoscopic sympathectomy, endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy |
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http://www.veins-szarnicki.com/hidrosis.html
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| | Hyperhidrosis Center - Video-Assisted Thoracic Sympathectomy |
| | At Cedars-Sinai, our surgeons have performed sympathectomy surgery since 1977 and helped pioneer the endoscopic procedure in 1995. | | | Endoscopic surgery is less painful (minor discomfort), has fewer postoperative complications, can be done on an outpatient basis and requires very little recovery time (normally, a couple of days). | | | Sweaty palms are cured in over 98% of cases. |
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http://www.csmc.edu/2613.html
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| | Frequently Asked Questions about Sympathectomy |
| | For more information or to schedule a consultation appointment with one of our surgeons, you may call our office at 410-328-6883 or e-mail lbennett@smail.umaryland.edu to reach Lesli Bennett, RN, BSN, Thoracic Surgery Nurse Coordinator.. | | | For patients who are not covered by any kind of medical insurance our office can assist you with making financial arrangements. | | | Compensatory sweating refers to sweating occurring in sites other than the original site of hyperhidrosis. This may occur in up to 40 percent of patients and occurs immediately or months after the surgery. |
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http://www.umm.edu/thoracic/faq_sym.html
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| | Pharmacology of Opioid and Nonopioid Analgesics in Chronic Pain States -- Martin and Eisenach 299 (3): 811 -- Journal ... |
| | Lee YM and Yaksh TL (1995) Analysis of drug interaction between intrathecal clonidine and MK-801 in peripheral neuropathic pain rat model. | | | Lavand'homme P, Pan HL and Eisenach JC (1998) Intrathecal neostigmine, but not sympathectomy, relieves mechanical allodynia in a rat model of neuropathic pain. | | | Lashbrook JM, Ossipov MH, Hunter JC, Raffa RB, Tallarida RJ and Porreca F (1999) Synergistic antiallodynic effects of spinal morphine with ketorolac and selective COX |
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http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/299/3/811
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Thromboangiitis obliterans |
| | Surgical sympathectomy (cutting the nerves to the area) may help control pain. | | | Attempts to increase circulation may include applying warmth and gently exercising the affected area. | | | Amputation of the extremity may be necessary if infection or extensive tissue death occurs. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000172.htm
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| | Hyperhidrosis Surgery |
| | Since the sympathetic chain that produces hand, feet and facial sweating is located in the chest, a thoracic or chest surgeon is the medical specialist that performs the surgery. | | | The information is intended to familiarize the patient with hyperhidrosis, and accurate information can be only obtained through a consultation with one of the physicians. | | | The procedure is known as Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy (ETS). |
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http://www.hyperhidrosis-california.com/treatment/surgical.html
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| | The University of Maryland Medical Center |
| | The surgery was performed by Mark Krasna, MD, chief of thoracic surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center and professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. | | | The thoracoscopic sympathectomy is often an option for patients who have had little or no success with other treatments, such as lotions and oral medications. | | | people witnessed a surgical Webcast of a Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy from the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. It is a minimally invasive procedure that can cure a person of hyperhidrosis, excess sweating of the hands, underarms, and/or feet. |
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http://www.or-live.com/umm/1191
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| | The Center for Hyperhidrosis. Dr. Reisfeld - sweaty palms / hand sweat |
| | When considering this or any surgical procedure, consult with your surgeon for any additional information regarding the surgery, risks, complications, recovery and results. | | | The information on this site is not to be used for diagnosis and or treatment, or to be used in place of professional medical advice from your doctor or physician. | | | Can the sympathectomy clamps move from their original position in the body? |
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http://www.sweaty-palms.com
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| | Holistic Drug Rehab Center: Links |
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