This book provides a detailed overview of sympathetic surgery, from its state-of-the-art techniques to controversies. It covers the anatomical background, indications, and complications, with a focus on overperspiration and the major side effect, compensatory sweating.
Moshe Hashmonai
Moshe Hashmonai, MD, FACS, is the former Director of the Department of General and Vascular Surgery at Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel, and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. Hashmonai is a co-founder of the International Society of Sympathetic Surgery and has served as a Board Member, past President, and Scientific Secretary. His special interest in the sympathetic system arose during his research years at the Mayo Clinic’s Department of Physiology, USA, where he studied the central autonomic input on the gastrointestinal myoelectric activity mediated by the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. His research applied an animal model of bilateral sympathetic trunk ablation and vagotomy. Hashmonai’s work yielded key articles published in the American Journal of Physiology and in Gastroenterology, as well as numerous contributions to the field of sympathetic surgery, including articles in leading surgical journals, book chapters, and reviews.