Symptoms include diarrhea alternating with constipation, postprandial vomiting, orthostatic hypotension, sweating abnormalities, and bladder symptoms.
110– 113 Manifestations of autonomic neuropathy include orthostatic hypotension, gastroparesis, diarrhea and constipation, xerostomia, xerophthalmia, urinary incontinence, sexual dysfunction, sweating abnormalities, and sluggish pupillary reaction.
It may provide an alternative explanation for symptoms commonly observed in HIV infected individuals such as bowel and bladder dysfunction, impotence, syncope and sweating abnormalities.
The SST was used to investigate the presence of cholinergic sympathetic fibers alterations by analyzing sweat abnormalities on the skin of the dorsum of the foot, which was coated with iodine and a fine emulsion of starch in arachis oil.
In both series, patients without pheochromocytoma were screened in clinical practice because of one or more of the following reasons: hypertension, spells (such as episodes of anxiety, sweating, palpitations, or headache), adrenal abnormality on imaging, previous history of surgically resected pheochromocytoma, or known familial predisposition to pheochromocytoma.
Inclusion criteria were: gastric reflux and signs of abdominal discomfort or pain (including pawing, sweating, tooth-grinding, stretching, lip curling, looking and/or kicking at the abdomen, rolling and lying down); with or without peritoneal fluid abnormality or rectal palpation abnormalities.
The players are sweating.
