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Condition Overview The Effects on Patients' Lives Physical discomfort from Excessive Sweating Social embarrassment and psychological effects of Hyperhidrosis Occupational tasks and activities of daily living with Hyperhidrosis Quality-of-life surveys on Excessive Sweating Conclusion: Impact of the disease Physiology of Normal Sweating Pathophysiology of Excessive Sweating Epidemiology of Primary Hyperhidrosis Causes of Secondary Hyperhidrosis Generalized hyperhidrosis Focal hyperhidrosis Rare forms of hyperhidrosis Hyperhidrosis and psychiatric illness, including social anxiety disorder Diagnosis Guidelines Assessment methods Approach to diagnosis Diagnostic algorithm Clinical Guidelines Generalized Hyperhidrosis Primary Focal Hyperhidrosis Hyperhidrosis Disease Severity Scale Axillary Hyperhidrosis Palmar Hyperhidrosis Plantar Hyperhidrosis Facial and Gustatory Hyperhidrosis
Physical discomfort from Excessive Sweating Social embarrassment and psychological effects of Hyperhidrosis Occupational tasks and activities of daily living with Hyperhidrosis Quality-of-life surveys on Excessive Sweating Conclusion: Impact of the disease
Generalized hyperhidrosis Focal hyperhidrosis Rare forms of hyperhidrosis Hyperhidrosis and psychiatric illness, including social anxiety disorder
Assessment methods Approach to diagnosis Diagnostic algorithm
Generalized Hyperhidrosis Primary Focal Hyperhidrosis Hyperhidrosis Disease Severity Scale Axillary Hyperhidrosis Palmar Hyperhidrosis Plantar Hyperhidrosis Facial and Gustatory Hyperhidrosis
Hyperhidrosis Disease Severity Scale Axillary Hyperhidrosis Palmar Hyperhidrosis Plantar Hyperhidrosis Facial and Gustatory Hyperhidrosis
Hyperhidrosis Treatment Overview Topical Treatments for Hyperhidrosis Aluminum chloride Mechanism of action Treating axillary sweating Treating palmar sweating Side effects Available forms Recommended regimen Using occlusion and alternative vehicles Astringent agents Anticholinergics and local anesthetics Iontophoresis for Hyperhidrosis History Mechanism of action Recommended regimen Clinical studies Side effects Studies of iontophoresis with anticholinergics and other agents Botulinum Toxin Injections (Botox®) History Mechanism of action Botulinum Toxin A (BOTOX®) and Treatment of Hyperhidrosis Safety Botulinum Toxin B and Treatment of Hyperhidrosis Systemic Medication used in treating Hyperhidrosis Diltiazem in familial primary hyperhidrosis Clonidine for facial and paroxysmal localized hyperhidrosis Indomethacin for generalized hyperhidrosis Benztropine for hyperhidrosis associated with venlafaxine use Oxybutynin for episodic hyperhidrosis with hypothermia Propantheline for hyperhidrosis in spinal cord injury Fludrocortisone for orthostatic hypotension-induced hyperhidrosis ETS Surgery for Hyperhidrosis Efficacy Palmar hyperhidrosis Axillary hyperhidrosis Facial hyperhidrosis Treating children Variation: Stereotactic percutaneous thermoablation Complications Compensatory hyperhidrosis Gustatory and phantom sweating, transient post-ETS hyperhidrosis Horner’s syndrome, neuralgia, and cardiac effects Recurrence of hyperhidrosis Other surgical complications Conclusion Local Surgical Procedures for Hyperhidrosis
Aluminum chloride Mechanism of action Treating axillary sweating Treating palmar sweating Side effects Available forms Recommended regimen Using occlusion and alternative vehicles Astringent agents Anticholinergics and local anesthetics
Mechanism of action Treating axillary sweating Treating palmar sweating Side effects Available forms Recommended regimen Using occlusion and alternative vehicles
History Mechanism of action Recommended regimen Clinical studies Side effects Studies of iontophoresis with anticholinergics and other agents
History Mechanism of action Botulinum Toxin A (BOTOX®) and Treatment of Hyperhidrosis Safety Botulinum Toxin B and Treatment of Hyperhidrosis
History Mechanism of action
Botulinum Toxin A (BOTOX®) and Treatment of Hyperhidrosis Safety Botulinum Toxin B and Treatment of Hyperhidrosis
Diltiazem in familial primary hyperhidrosis Clonidine for facial and paroxysmal localized hyperhidrosis Indomethacin for generalized hyperhidrosis Benztropine for hyperhidrosis associated with venlafaxine use Oxybutynin for episodic hyperhidrosis with hypothermia Propantheline for hyperhidrosis in spinal cord injury Fludrocortisone for orthostatic hypotension-induced hyperhidrosis
Efficacy Palmar hyperhidrosis Axillary hyperhidrosis Facial hyperhidrosis Treating children Variation: Stereotactic percutaneous thermoablation Complications Compensatory hyperhidrosis Gustatory and phantom sweating, transient post-ETS hyperhidrosis Horner’s syndrome, neuralgia, and cardiac effects Recurrence of hyperhidrosis Other surgical complications Conclusion
Palmar hyperhidrosis Axillary hyperhidrosis Facial hyperhidrosis Treating children Variation: Stereotactic percutaneous thermoablation
Compensatory hyperhidrosis Gustatory and phantom sweating, transient post-ETS hyperhidrosis Horner’s syndrome, neuralgia, and cardiac effects Recurrence of hyperhidrosis Other surgical complications
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