sympathectomy in English

noun

1

the surgical cutting of a sympathetic nerve or removal of a ganglion to relieve a condition affected by its stimulation.

Before 1953, procedures such as stellate ganglion block, cervical sympathectomy , thrombectomy of occluded carotid arteries, and carotid bifurcation ligation, were used.

Use "sympathectomy" in a sentence

1. 24 In sympathectomy group , the left paravertebral sympathetic trunk was resected from L1 to the most caudal level by abdominal approach .

2. Khogali et al.'s (1999) success of limited T2–T4 sympathectomy in relieving pain at rest of patients with intractable angina pectoris appears to indicate that a significant afferent pain pathway from the heart is selectively interrupted.

3. Experimental inversion of suspected metabolic alterations; administration of cortical hormones to prevent the lowering of their venous titer; exclusion of the sympathoadrenal system through complete sympathectomy, spinal section, denervation of the adrenal gland, adrenodemedullation or the use of adrenolytic agents; or the deafferentiation of the hypophysis through pituitary-stalk section or hypophyseal transplantation may admittedly interfere, under certain conditions, with the stress-induced release of ACTH from the anterior pituitary.

4. On account of recent peripheral reconstructive possibilities, the application of lumbar sympathectomy today is restricted to three situations: as an adjunctive measure following iliaco/profundal reconstructive inflow operations to the collateral vessels of the thigh, as a last attempt to improve crural and pedal microcirculation in the absence of any possibility of peripheral reconstruction in stage III and early IV, pain relief by interference with spinal pain transmission.