Effects of lumbar sympathectomy: abolition of ejaculation, causalgia in 41, general morbidity of 0.6% and mortality rate of 0.6 %, arrhythmias, cardiac decompensation

Goldstein, reviewing the complications of 791 patients undergoing open lumbar sympathectomy reports 10% of specific complications, such as abolition of ejaculation in 22 patients and causalgia in 41, general morbidity of 0.6% (TEP and bleeding) and mortality rate of 0.6 % (arrhythmias, cardiac decompensation or bleeding) 15.

SIMPACTECTOMIA RETROPERITONEOSCÓPICA FOR TREATMENT OF LUMBAR plantar hyperhidrosis RETROPERITONEOSCOPIC lumbar sympathectomy FOR THE TREATMENT OF PLANT HYPERIDROSIS
Marcelo de Paula Loureiro, TCBC-PR ¹, ² Neomar Roman, Sheila Cristina Weigmann ³;
Aline ³ Fontana, Paulo Cesar Bufara Boscardim4
(Rev Bras ECR. Cir. 2007, 34 (4): 222-224).
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