CS or compensatory hyperhidrosis is the most common and troublesome side-effect of hyperhidrosis surgery and is the leading cause of patient regret after sympathetic surgery.
A severe form of CS is the split-body syndrome, corposcindosis, which is deļ¬ned as an
autonomic neuropathy in which the sympathetic nerve function has been divided into two distinct
regions, one dead and the other hyperactive. In these cases, the patient feels like he or she is living
in two separate bodies.
The rates of CS in some series from the past 10 years are summarized in Table 4, with rates of mild CS varying from 14% to 90% and severe CS from 1.2% to 30.9%.
Some investigators only report on patients who have severe CS because they believe that almost all patients develop mild CS after sympathectomy.
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