Sympathectomy for Essential Hypertension

Thoracolumbar sympathectomy in hypertension.

The average survival time of patients in the malignant phase of hypertension is short-eight months according to Keith et al. (1928). There have been many reports of the effects of bilateral thoracolumbar sympathectomy on the mortality rate in. this disease. Woods and Peet (1941) recorded a survival rate of 33 per cent five years after operation and Peet and Isberg (1946) a rate of 19 per cent a...

The effect of sympathectomy for essential hypertension on the hallucal circulation.

Video-assisted sympathectomy for essential hyperhidrosis: effects on cardiopulmonary function.

BACKGROUND Essential hyperhidrosis is characterized by overactivity of the sympathetic fibers passing through the upper-dorsal ganglia (second and third thoracic ganglia [D2-D3]), and the treatment of choice is video-assisted thoracoscopy sympathectomy. Alterations in cardiopulmonary function after treatment have been reported. STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate cardiopulmonary function impairment a...

Tai Chi for Essential Hypertension

Objectives. To assess the current clinical evidence of Tai Chi for essential hypertension (EH). Search Strategy. 7 electronic databases were searched until 20 April, 2013. Inclusion Criteria. We included randomized trials testing Tai Chi versus routine care or antihypertensive drugs. Trials testing Tai Chi combined with antihypertensive drugs versus antihypertensive drugs were also included. Da...

Chemical sympathectomy alters the development of hypertension in miniature swine.

To determine if the neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine could be used to chemically sympathectomize neonatal miniature swine, eight newborn swine were treated with 6-hydroxydopamine beginning on the first day after birth and continuing at regular intervals for the next 6 months. Six littermates served as controls and received vehicle injections. A significant reduction in the pressor response to intra...