In 1949, Learmonth performed a lumbar sympathectomy on Queen in Scotland from 1952 to 1960.
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No reliable operation exists for foot sweating except lumbar sympathectomy, at the opposite end of the sympathetic chain.
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In 1946 and 1955 the neurosurgeon Eduard Busch performed a lumbar sympathectomy on Blixen's spinal cord, but her pain returned.
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A lumbar sympathectomy was also developed and used to treat excessive sweating of the feet and other ailments, and typically resulted in impotence and retrograde ejaculation in men.
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Lumbar sympathectomy is still being offered as a treatment for plantar hyperhidrosis, or as a treatment for patients who have a bad outcome ( extreme'compensatory sweating') after thoracic sympathectomy for palmar hyperhidrosis or blushing; however, extensive sympathectomy risks hypotension.
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