ArticleJournal of minimal access surgery
Thoracoscopic bilateral dorsal sympathectomy for primary palmo-axillary hyperhidrosis short- and mid-term results.
Article in Journal of minimal access surgery. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThoracoscopic bilateral dorsal sympathectomy is the standard of care for primary palmo-axillary hyperhidrosis. This study aims at studying the surgical outcomes with special emphasis on the incidence of compensatory hyperhidrosis (CH) after thoracoscopic dorsal sympathectomy. Post-procedural patient satisfaction as well as quality of life was measured and analysed. MATERIALS AND
methodsThis is a retrospective analysis of sixty thoracoscopic dorsal sympathectomy surgeries in thirty patients in a tertiary level thoracic surgery centre over 2 years. Various peri-operative variables were recorded and assessed. Incidence of CH was noted and analysed in relation to patient satisfaction and record was made of quality of life at the time of discharge, at 3 months and 1-year follow-up following surgery.
resultsWe performed sixty video-assisted thoracoscopic sympathectomies in 30 patients. The mean operative time was 44.93 ± 10 min. The mean hospital stay was 1 day. There were no immediate post-procedural complications. All the patients had complete resolution of palmar and axillary hyperhidrosis. Fifty per cent of our patients (15/30) had some degree of CH after surgery. Quality-of-life measurement showed very good satisfaction by 100% at discharge, by 93.3% at 3 months and at 1 year. Those 6.66% of patients were partially satisfied/not satisfied because of the presence of moderate-to-severe CH.
conclusionA significant percentage of the patients with primary palmo-axillary hyperhidrosis will be very satisfied with the procedure at 1 year after surgery despite 50% of them developing CH. Detailed counselling regarding CH in the pre-operative period would minimise the dissatisfaction rate after surgery.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.