This book provides a detailed overview of sympathetic surgery, its present state-of-the-art techniques, consensus, and controversies. It contains an in-depth exposition and critical account of the literary field. It supplies the anatomical and physiological background of sympathetic ablation; its indications, past and present; the evolution of its methods and techniques; and the resulting pathophysiology, complications, and side effects. Overperspiration, the foremost present-day indication for sympathetic surgery, is discussed in detail, as is compensatory sweating, the major and most disturbing sequel of sympathetic ablation. This book is addressed to any surgeon (general, vascular, thoracic, and neurosurgeon), dermatologist, or physician interested in hyperhidrosis, the major present-day indication of sympathetic surgery. Finally, it conveys ideas for future basic and clinical research that will advance the science and art of sympathetic surgery.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Großbritannien
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Höhe: 212 mm
Breite: 148 mm
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978-1-0364-4686-4 (9781036446864)
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Moshe Hashmonai, MD, FACS, is the former Director of the Department of General and Vascular Surgery at Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel, and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Hashmonai is a co-founder of the International Society of Sympathetic Surgery and has served as a Board Member, past President, and Scientific Secretary. His special interest in the sympathetic system arose during his research years at the Mayo Clinic's Department of Physiology, USA, where he studied the central autonomic input on the gastrointestinal myoelectric activity mediated by the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. His research applied an animal model of bilateral sympathetic trunk ablation and vagotomy. Hashmonai's work yielded key articles published in the American Journal of Physiology and in Gastroenterology, as well as numerous contributions to the field of sympathetic surgery, including articles in leading surgical journals, book chapters, and reviews.
