Sympathectomy works by disabling part of the autonomic nervous system ( and thereby disrupting its signals from the brain ), through surgical intervention, in the expectation of removing or alleviating the designated problem.
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Now, BF-please, in great detail, would you please elucidate any factual errors on the Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy page, or the soon-to-be-deleted Corposcindosis page?
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Endoscopic 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 in the past.
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Dr . Richard Whyte, head of the thoracic surgery division at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif ., and an expert in sympathectomy, said that the operation was safe and effective.
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The Finnish Office for Health Care Technology Assessment recently concluded in a 400-page systematic review that Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy is associated with an unusually high number of significant immediate and long-term adverse effects.
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The first sympathectomy was performed by Alexander in 1889 . Thoracic sympathectomy has been indicated for hyperhidrosis ( excessive sweating ) since 1920, when Kotzareff showed it would cause anhidrosis ( total inability to sweat ) from the nipple line upwards.
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The first sympathectomy was performed by Alexander in 1889 . Thoracic sympathectomy has been indicated for hyperhidrosis ( excessive sweating ) since 1920, when Kotzareff showed it would cause anhidrosis ( total inability to sweat ) from the nipple line upwards.
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This problem was demonstrated by a significant number of patients who underwent sympathectomy at the same level for hand sweating, but who then presented a reduction or elimination of feet sweating, in contrast to others who were not affected in this way.
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Thoracic sympathectomy will change many bodily functions, including sweating, heart rate, thyroid, baroreflex, lung volume, pupil dilation, skin temperature and other aspects of the autonomic nervous system, like the essential fight-or-flight response.
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Fed up, she turned to the Internet and was surprised to find a group of people with hypec transthoracic sympathectomy, a surgical procedure that interrupts transmission to nerves in the chest that power the sweat glands in the armpits, palms and soles.
