Unilateral Hemihyperhidrosis in a Stroke Patient and Literature Review on Its Clinicoanatomical Correlation

Authors

  • May Honey Ohn Department of Accident and Emergency, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
  • Khin Maung Ohn Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
  • Khin Nyein Yin Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
  • Teh Yong Guang Department of Medicine Based Discipline, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
  • Ng Pey Luen Department of Radiology, Hospital Queen Elizabeth II, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
  • Chin Li Bing Department of Medicine Based Discipline, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51200/bjms.v14i2.1883

Keywords:

hyperhidrosis, stroke, sweating disorder, cardiovascular accident

Abstract

Contralateral hyperhidrosis from the cardiovascular accident has been infrequently described in the stroke literature. The clinical significance and pathogenesis are yet well understood. This is a case of a 60-year-old man who developed excessive sweating of the paralyzed side with a pure division along the midline of the body secondary to a subcortical stroke, which region is supplied by branches of middle cerebral artery territory known as deep perforating lenticulostriate. To the best of our knowledge, a precise clinicoanatomic correlation between hyperhidrosis and subcortical stroke has not been widely reported. In this review, we summarize the existing literature of post-stroke hyperhidrosis to evaluate the correlation between clinical manifestation and its neuroanatomical location. According to the location of the infarction and clinical features, it can be concluded that both tracks en route through the ipsilateral internal capsule, after originating in the opercular cortex before crossing the brain stem and terminal connections with the contralateral thoracic spinal cord. Therefore, the phenomenon of hyperhidrosis in anterior circulation stroke might be postulated as due to the disruption of the sympathoinhibitory pathway that controls sweat glands, similarly like posterior circulation stroke.

Published

2020-05-29

How to Cite

Ohn, M. H., Ohn, K. M., Yin, K. N., Guang, T. Y., Luen, N. P., & Bing, C. L. (2020). Unilateral Hemihyperhidrosis in a Stroke Patient and Literature Review on Its Clinicoanatomical Correlation. Borneo Journal of Medical Sciences (BJMS), 14(2), 41. https://doi.org/10.51200/bjms.v14i2.1883
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