Neuropathic pain can be divided into sympathetically maintained pain (SMP) and sympathetically independent pain (SIP). Rats with tibial and sural nerve transection (TST) produce neuropathic pain behaviors, including spontaneous pain, tactile allodynia, and cold allodynia. The present study was undertaken to examine whether rats with TST would represent SMP- or SIP-dominant neuropathic pain by l...

background primary hyperhidrosis (p.h.h.) is characterized by excessive sweating in certain parts of body. it’s estimated prevalence is 0%-6.1% in different populations. in asian population its prevalence is around 3%. in 57% of cases, there is a positive family history. objectives to evaluate and compare the early and late satisfaction, outcomes and complications of thoracoscopic sympathectomy...

24 ABSTRACT Objective: No study has yet compared the efficacy of endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy for treating facial blushing with other treatment or no treatment. We conducted a prospective, observational, openlabel, clinical study to compare endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy for blushing with generalized social anxiety disorder versus sertraline treatment and no treatment. Method: Three-hun...

background and objective : sleep deprivation (sd) is caused by a host of reasons and has numerous consequences on cardiac system. in this study, we aimed to assess the preconditioning effects of acute sd on ischemia (is)-induced ventricular arrhythmias in isolated rat hearts. materials and methods : male wistar rats randomly were placed into the four groups: is-group, acute sd group, control gr...

buerger's disease is an occlusive inflammatory disease of the small and medium-sized arteries and accounts for a variable proportion of patients with peripheral vascular disease throughout the world. the aim of this study was to review the records of buerger's disease patients admitted to surgery wards of our university hospitals. 277 patients with buerger's disease were surgically treated betw...

OBJECTIVE To compare compensatory sweating after lowering or restricting the level of sympathectomy. METHOD A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted of all randomized controlled trials published in English that compared compensatory sweating after lowering or restricting the level of sympathectomy. The Cochrane collaboration tool was used to assess the risk of bias, and the Mantel...