Secondary generalized hyperdrosis
The reasons of secondary generalized hyperdrosis are the following conditions:
• endocrine disturbances:
• a hyperthyroidism;
• a diabetes;
• a climacteric syndrome;
• a pheochromocytoma;
• a carcinoid syndrome – superfluous coming in a blood of a serotonin, metastasizing in a liver;
• an acromegalia;
• infectious diseases:
• a tuberculosis;
• a brucellosis;
• a malaria;
• oncologic diseases:
• a lymphogranulomatosis;
• malignant lymphoma;
• genetic disturbances:
• family vegetative dysfunction that is a hyper salivation, generalized hyperdrosis, mental lability, lowered painful sensitivity;
• the use of the medical products possessing cholinergic effect;
• an alcoholic or narcotic abstinent syndrome;
• a poisoning phosphor substances, fly-agarics.
Hyperdrosis treatment:
At treatment ofsecondary hyperdrosis it is necessary to influence the reason which has caused it first of all. Often therapy of a basic disease promotes retrogress of treatment methods of idiopathic hyperdrosis and it is possible to part on two groups: conservative and surgical.
Surgical methods of treatment:
Operative measures at hyperdrosis:
A remote method is surgical interventions on the sites which have been kept away from a place of the raised diaphoresis. The sympathectomyis among such methods. The method consists in crossing of a sympathetic trunk at certain level. As a rule, the sympathectomy is carried out at palmar hyperdrosis, it is ineffective at hyperdrosis of axillas and is no effective at hyperdrosis of feet. The lumbar sympathectomy causes an impotency in men.
There are three kinds of a sympathectomy:
• endoscopic – the optimal way from all operative measures concerning hyperdrosis;
• opened – it is characteristic traumatical access, the long period of the after treatment, the expressed postoperative cicatrixes;
• in skin method – it is carried out without visual control of the surgeon that becomes complicated frequent “misses”.
Local, or surgical interventions are applied only to treatment of axillary hyperdrosis and to it concerns:
• a liposuction of an axillary hollow – high cost of procedure and doubtful efficiency;
• a curettage of an axillary hollow – it is dangerous, as a bleeding and formation of hematomas can be seen, besides in some years after performance of curettage the sweating can be restored in connection with possible germination of the nervous terminations and sweat glands;
• excising of an axillary zone – excision of a site of a skin on which the great bulk settles down of sweat glands. It is enough traumatically operation which because of cicatrical changes can limit subsequently volume of movements.
The choice of a method of treatment of the patient with the raised sweating depends on concrete diseases, awareness of the doctor concerning modern methods of therapy and also on wishes of the patient. However the doctor should know about complications and traumatism of surgical methods and in cases, when the clinical situation allows preferring conservative therapy, in which arsenal – highly effective, safe and convenient agents of application.
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