What Is a Sympathectomy?

Sympathectomy refers to the surgical method to cut or remove the sympathetic nerve in a certain part to treat certain diseases.

Sympathectomy

Sympathetic nerves are an important part of the human autonomic nervous system (also known as the autonomic nervous system) and play an important role in regulating the internal organs of the human body. As early as more than 100 years ago, humans have discovered that surgery to cut or remove a certain part of the sympathetic nerve can effectively treat certain diseases. Those early surgical indications in history include primary

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Surgical use

On the whole, this is a minimally invasive surgery, which is not very risky and has high safety, but there are also certain risks strictly speaking. Since this is a

Sympathectomy is the most ideal method for treating hand sweat, with an effective rate of more than 95%. The effect of individual patients is not ideal. The ratio is about 5%. There are two types of performance. One is that the effect is not good after surgery and the palm is still sweaty. relapse". From the statistical data, there are individual cases where this effect is not good after various surgical methods. But basically it is better than before surgery. There is almost no improvement at all. For axillary sweat, as long as the surgical method is appropriate, it can also reach an efficiency of close to 100%. But for foot sweat, only a small number of patients will improve slightly after surgery, and can not expect too much. The effective rate of long QT syndrome surgery is 80% -90%; in patients with severe Raynaud syndrome, the symptoms of palm ischemic pain after surgery can almost be improved. For patients with cancerous upper abdominal pain, the postoperative effective rate is about 80%.