Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy for Isolated Facial Blushing

Licht, Peter B.; Ladegaard, Lars; Pilegaard, Hans K.

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.12.017

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“…This approach poses difficult choices for surgeons and patients. For example, patients with rubor facialis or craniofacial HH for whom T2 sympathectomy or sympathicotomy is indicated should be informed of their high risk for dissatisfaction related to CH, in spite of the fact that their presenting symptoms will resolve in almost 100% of the cases, as shown by us and others [25]. In other instances, such as axillary hyperhidrosis, surgeons should limit the sympathectomy to T4, as opposed to T3 and T4, decreasing the amount of sympathetic chain affected and, in consequence, decreasing CH score and dissatisfaction.…”

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confidence: 81%

Transection of More Than One Sympathetic Chain Ganglion for Hyperhidrosis Increases the Severity of Compensatory Hyperhidrosis and Decreases Patient Satisfaction

Weksler¹,

Blaine²,

Souza³

et al. 2009

Journal of Surgical Research

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confidence: 81%

Transection of More Than One Sympathetic Chain Ganglion for Hyperhidrosis Increases the Severity of Compensatory Hyperhidrosis and Decreases Patient Satisfaction

Weksler¹,

Blaine²,

Souza³

et al. 2009

Journal of Surgical Research

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“…In Scandinavia, surgical treatment of blushing accounted for approximately half of all sympathectomies [77,85], whereas sympathetic ablation for this indication is quite rare in Asia [68]. The reason could be either a different cultural attitude to the problem or, possibly, a true constitutional difference between populations.…”

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confidence: 99%

Thoracic sympathectomy: a review of current indications

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Currently, thoracic sympathetic ablation is indicated mainly for primary hyperhidrosis, especially affecting the palm, and to a lesser degree, axilla and face, and for facial blushing. Despite modern pharmaceutical, endovascular and surgical treatments, sympathetic ablation has still a place in the treatment of very selected cases of angina, arrhythmias and cardiomyopathy. Thoracic sympathetic ablation is indicated in several painful conditions: the early stages of complex regional pain syndrome, erythromelalgia, and some pancreatic and other painful abdominal pathologies. Although ischaemia was historically the major indication for sympathetic ablation, its use has declined to a few selected cases of thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease), microemboli, primary Raynaud's phenomenon and Raynaud's phenomenon secondary to collagen diseases, paraneoplastic syndrome, frostbite and vibration syndrome. Thoracic sympathetic ablation for hypertension is obsolete, and direct endovascular renal sympathectomy still requires adequate clinical trials. There are rare publications of sympathetic ablation for primary phobias, but there is no scientific basis to support sympathetic surgery for any psychiatric indication.

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“…Il va préoccuper le sujet et être l'objet de comportements compulsifs comme l'est un défaut supposé dans le BDD. Les éreutophobes recourent à la chirurgie des ganglions sympathiques thoraciques comme les sujets BDD à la chirurgie esthétique, nonobstant des inconvénients sérieux, avec d'importantes séries de cas publiées [77][78][79]. Dans le même ordre d'idées, on parle peu des autres phobies sociales des fonctions corporelles, comme la phobie du fonctionnement intestinal ou celle de la sudation, qui font aussi partie du Taijin Kyofusho [75].…”

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