Surgical elimination of the stellate ganglion ( sympathectomy ) is a treatment of last resort for Raynaud's disease.
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Some physicians advocate trying this more conservative procedure before resorting to surgical sympathectomy, the effects of which are usually not reversible.
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It can be observed in patients with nerve damage ( following accidents ), diabetes mellitus and as a result of sympathectomy.
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The uptake of 3 H-noradrenaline was severely impaired after sympathectomy, indicating that it occurred mainly into sympathetic nerve terminals.
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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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Percutaneous sympathectomy is a minimally invasive procedure similar to the botulinum method, in which nerves are blocked by an injection of phenol.
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The procedure is called a sympathectomy, where the nerve connecting to the hands, feet or armpits is severed, effectively ending sweat forever.
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A surgical sympathectomy can and does cause the sympathetic nervous system to be divided into 2 distinct regions, one dead and the other hyperactive.
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Mayfield wrote numerous papers and a book about the treatment of causalgia ( intense pain resulting from wounds to peripheral nerves ) with surgical sympathectomy.
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The most common area targeted in sympathectomy is the upper thoracic region, that part of the sympathetic chain lying between the first and fifth thoracic vertebrae.
