In treating excessive sweating, one of the most extreme methods is Hyperhidrosis surgery. Different techniques exist in terms of sweating surgery. For underarm for example, through surgical procedure, a complete removal of the sweat glands is now possible. While scarring does occur, recurrence of the condition is also a concern. Gland removal, this is the term for such kind of intervention.
For other areas that are stricken by excess sweat such as hands and feet, sympathectomy is applied. Two incisions are made at the chest area during the surgical process. Through these incisions, a microscopic camera is introduced and the surgeon cuts and alters the sympathetic nerve chain, known to trigger excessive sweating.
While these types of operations might seem simple, these are also risky as these may result to possible complications. In many cases, Hyperhydrosis surgery may result to compensatory sweating (excess sweating elsewhere), gustatory sweating (excess sweating after eating) and can even cause nerve damage during the operation.
Compensatory Sweating
Compensatory sweating is one of the results that all patients undergoing ETS will experience. This is unavoidable because as the propensity to have excessive sweating cannot be eliminated for those patients with hyperhidrosis. Surgery only leads to the elimination of the pathway to the sweat glands of the hand. In most patients, compensatory sweating is mild, well-tolerated and a tolerable alternative to extreme palmar sweating.
Over the past several years, several different surgical procedures have developed to treat hyperhidrosis and eliminate or reduce the risk of compensatory sweating. Patient selection is important . Certain patients seem to experience worse compensatory sweating. Patients who experience excessive sweating over their entire body before ETS are prone to suffer more severe compensatory sweating. It has been our custom to prevent ETS surgical procedure in these patients.
The surgical method too may affect both the frequency and severity of compensatory sweating. Patients with hyperhidrosis are not all the same. While others may also experience severe facial sweating and blushing simultaneously, some patients have mostly hand sweating. Since not all patients have the same symptoms, we believe that to suit it, the surgical procedure must be individualized. Modifying the procedure depending on the dominant symptoms is also suggested by several reports involving large numbers of patients from European centers.
Gustatory Sweating
A comparatively rare side effect of sympathectomy is gustatory sweating. For those patients who experience this, they will notice increased sweating when eating certain foods or from the smell of some foods. This is a relatively rare side effect. Less than 1% of patients have this procedure, based on the accounted incidence.
Cardiovascular
The sympathetic autonomic nervous structure has also a part in moderating cardiac function. There have been experimental reports in the literature about the effects of ETS on heart rate and the response of the heart to exercise. However, no reliable data would decisively back up about the relationship between ETS and cardiac function. Clinical data that has been published up to date showed no evidence that ETS surgery has any undesirable impact on cardiac function, or the ability to reach preoperative peak work loads.
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