Ross syndrome
Evidence-based neurology checklist on ross syndrome: Pathology This is a disorder of thermoregulation There is degeneration of cholinergic sudomotor and cutaneous sensory nerves This causes loss of sweating and impaired heat production and heat dissipation There is also loss of cutaneous blood…
Pathology
- This is a disorder of thermoregulation
- There is degeneration of cholinergic sudomotor and cutaneous sensory nerves
- This causes loss of sweating and impaired heat production and heat dissipation
- There is also loss of cutaneous blood flow regulation
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References
- Nolano M, Provitera V, Perretti A, et al. Ross syndrome: a rare or a misknown disorder of thermoregulation? A skin innervation study on 12 subjects. Brain 2006; 129:2119-2131.
- Sommer C, Lindenlaub T, Zillikens D, Toyka KV, Naumann M. Selective loss of cholinergic sudomotor fibers causes anhidrosis in Ross syndrome. Ann Neurol 2002; 52:247-250.
- Bergmann I, Dauphin M, Naumann M, et al. Selective degeneration of sudomotor fibers in Ross syndrome and successful treatment of compensatory hyperhidrosis with botulinum toxin. Muscle Nerve 1998; 21:1790-1793.
- Drummond PD, Edis RH. Loss of facial sweating and flushing in Holmes-Adie syndrome. Neurology 1990; 40:847-849.
- Agarwala MK, George L, Parmar H, Mathew V. Ross syndrome: a case report and review of cases from India. Indian J Dermatol 2016; 61:348.
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