ArticleAnnals of translational medicine2018
Compensatory hyperhidrosis after different surgeries at the same sympathetic levels: a meta-analysis.
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- A significant gap between inadequate pharmacotherapy and substantial unmet needs in palmar hyperhidrosis management in China: insights from a questionnaire-based survey among outpatients.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Topical oxybutynin deodorant for axillary hyperhidrosis: a topic or a systemic effect? Rationale and design of the phase II today trial.Jornal vascular brasileiro · 2025Review
- Long term outcomes and risk factors of compensatory hyperhidrosis after thoracoscopic sympathectomy in primary palmar hyperhidrosis patients: a retrospective single-center study.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2024Article
- Patient experience and prognostic factors of compensatory hyperhidrosis and recurrence after endoscopic thoracic sympathicotomy.Surgical endoscopy · 2022Article
- Minimally Invasive Sympathicotomy for Palmar Hyperhidrosis and Facial Blushing: Current Status and the Hyperhidrosis Expert Center Approach.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Heart rate variability as a potential diagnostic tool to predict compensatory hyperhidrosis after sympathectomy in patients with primary focal hyperhidrosis.Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Article
- New sympathicotomy for prevention of severe compensatory hyperhidrosis in patients with primary hyperhidrosis.Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundDifferent techniques of video-assisted thoracoscopic sympathetic surgery have become the radical treatments for palmar and axillary hyperhidrosis (AH). However, there is no consensus over which technique can make a minimal incidence of compensatory hyperhidrosis (CH). This study was designed to compare the incidence of CH after different techniques at the same sympathetic levels in the treatment of upper limb and facial hyperhidrosis (FH).
methodsThe databases of PubMed, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, Ovid Medline, Embase, and Cochrane Library were searched to identify studies comparing different surgical techniques at the same sympathetic levels for upper limb and FH. The data was analyzed by Revman 5.3 software.
resultsA total of ten studies involving 896 patients were included, of whom 149 underwent sympathectomy, 435 underwent sympathicotomy, and 312 under endoscopic sympathetic clip (ESC). Meta-analysis showed that the difference of incidence of CH and patients' satisfaction was not significant between sympathectomy and sympathicotomy (P=0.05, 0.19, respectively). But, the incidence of CH is significant lower after ESC than after sympathicotomy (OR: 1.58, 95% CI: 1.04-2.38, P=0.03). However, the incidence of moderate/severe CH between these two groups is not significant different (OR: 1.49, 95% CI: 0.93-2.39, P=0.10).
conclusionsIf only CH and the same sympathetic levels concerned, sympathectomy and sympathicotomy is equal for upper limb hyperhidrosis and FH. And, ESC should be recommended for a lower incidence of CH, comparing with sympathicotomy.
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