Sympathectomy

Known as: Denervations, Sympathetic, Sympathetic Denervations, surgical sympathectomy

The removal or interruption of some part of the sympathetic nervous system for therapeutic or research purposes.

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2004

Iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (mIBG) is taken up by sympathetic nerve endings, allowing scintigraphic imaging of myocardial…

1985

Japanese rat chow and cerebral sympathetic denervation increase the incidence of stroke in stroke-prone spontaneously…

1982

Noise-induced hearing loss was assessed in unilaterally sympathectomized rats exposed one month to 100 dB Leq(lin) noise. The…

1982

The effects of bilateral sinoaortic denervation were examined in rabbits in vivo and in vitro. In the in vivo studies the effects…

1980

: Sexual function has been assessed in 44 patients under 60 years old after bilateral lumbar sympathectomy. 21 had lumbar…

1977

In a series of 100 bilateral upper dorsal sympathectomies performed for palmar hyperhidrosis, gustatory sweating and other…

1976

"Staircase" increments of calcium (from 0.5 to 15 mEq/L) were added to the perfused rat pancreas in the absence of glucagon…

1972

Treatment of newborn mice and rats with the adrenergic blocking agents, guanethidine and bretylium tosylate, results in massive…

1969

13 to 15 hrs after excision of the superior cervical ganglion the postdenervation ptosis in the rat is reversed for about 12 hrs…

1947

THE subject of operation on the sympathetic chain in cases with vasospastic attacks of the Raynaud type is one on which there is…