【 摘 要 】
INTRODUCTION. Hyperhidrosis is a primary disorder characterized by excessive sweating that appears spontaneously, independently of the climate, and it is generally accompanied with coldness of the affected zone. The present study was aimed at evaluating the efficiency of video-assisted thoracoscopic sympathectomy to treat moderate palmar hyperhidrosis. METHODS. The preliminary cut-off of a controlled, longitudinal and prospective clinical test aimed at evaluating the efficiency of this procedure at the dorsal level T3 and T4 was made. To this end, the results of the technique were compared with those of a control group that received traditional drug therapy (40 patients in all). The patients were studied from June 2006 to February 2007. The following variables were analyzed: cure, secondary effects, psychical gain, complications and mortality for each therapeutics. RESULTS. In the first 13 patients, general anesthesia was used with selective intubation, patient in prone position and 2 or 3 5-mm trocars indistinctly. In the last 7 months, simple intubation was used. semi-sitting position and only one 7-mm trocar. The average surgical time was 7 months. The secondary effects were compensatory sweating in (58.3 %) and rebound sweating in 2 (5 %). There was an intercostal bleeding and lung injury that were corrected during surgery. No patient needed antibiotics. Only one patient required pleural drainage (for 18 hours). Analgesia was applied in habitual doses and hospital stay was longer than 24 hours in all the cases, and 7 of them received ambulatory treatment. CONCLUSIONS. Video-assisted sympathectomy proved to be efficient to treat moderate palmar hyperhydrosis.
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