Idiopathic pure sudomotor failure

Idiopathic pure sudomotor failure (IPSF) is the most common cause of a rare disorder known as acquired idiopathic generalized anhidrosis (AIGA), a clinical syndrome characterized by generalized decrease or absence of sweating without other autonomic and somatic nervous dysfunctions and without persistent organic cutaneous lesions.[1]

Idiopathic pure sudomotor failure
SpecialtyDermatology 

The term IPSF was first introduced in 1994 after researchers at Saitama Medical School speculated the primary lesion sites in patients were within cholinergic receptors of the sweat glands. The term IPSF represent a distinct subgroup of AIGA without sudomotor neuropathy or sweat gland failure.[2]

Clinical features

Pathology

Intracutaneous injection of pilocarpine (sweat gland stimulant) is known to evoke no sweat response, indicating that lesions are on the post-synaptic side of the nerve-sweat gland junction.[1]

The proposed pathomechanisms of idiopathic pure sudomotor failure include:

  • A deficit within muscarinic cholinergic receptors of the eccrine sweat glands.[1][3]
  • Interference in acetylcholine transmission to cholinergic receptors.[1]
  • A cross-reactive immune response which interferes with cholinergic transmission in the eccrine glands.[4]
  • Components of an immediate-type allergy (based on the dramatic resumption of axon reflex sweating following glucocorticoid treatment).[3]

Diagnosis

Management

Treatment of AIGA almost always consists of steroid pulse therapy or high-dose oral steroids and is not consistently effective. Much remains unclear regarding the reasons for recurrent anhidrosis. [5]

Epidemiology

The overwhelming majority of reported AIGA patients are Japanese, but whether AIGA is truly rare in whites or has been simply underreported by Western physicians remains unclear.[1]

AIGA is most prevalent among young men. In a 64 case review of the literature 58 reported cases were males and 6 female, with a mean age of onset at 28 ± 11 years. Cholinergic urticaria or sharp pain over the entire body induced by elevated body temperature was reported in 32 cases (50%). Of 28 cases tested, 12 (43%) displayed elevated serum IgE levels. Skin biopsy was performed in 53 cases, with normal findings in 20 cases (38%), and cellular infiltrates in sweat glands or ducts in 23 cases (43%).[1]

See also

References
  1. Nakazato, Y.; Tamura, N.; Ohkuma, A.; Yoshimaru, K.; Shimazu, K. (2004). "Idiopathic pure sudomotor failure: Anhidrosis due to deficits in cholinergic transmission". Neurology. 63 (8): 1476–1480. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000142036.54112.57. PMID 15505168.
  2. Nakazato, Y.; Shimazu, K.; Tamura, N.; Hamaguchi, K. (1994). "Idiopathic pure sudomotor failure". Rinsho Shinkeigaku. 34 (1): 12–15. PMID 8156704.
  3. Nakazato, Y.; Tamura, N.; Ohkuma, A.; Yoshimaru, K.; Shimazu, K. (2005). "QSART in idiopathic pure sudomotor failure". Clinical Autonomic Research. 15 (6): 414–416. doi:10.1007/s10286-005-0301-8. PMID 16362546.
  4. Chin, Y. -Y.; Chang, T. C. -C.; Chang, C. -H. (2012). "Idiopathic pure sudomotor failure and cholinergic urticaria in a patient after acute infectious mononucleosis infection". Clinical and Experimental Dermatology. 38 (2): no. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2230.2012.04437.x. PMID 22924754.
  5. Ohshima, Y.; Yanagishita, T.; Ito, K.; Tamada, Y.; Nishimura, N.; Inukai, Y.; Iwase, S.; Sugenoya, J.; Watanabe, D. (2012). "Treatment of patients with acquired idiopathic generalized anhidrosis". British Journal of Dermatology. 168 (2): 430–432. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.2012.11112.x. PMID 22709381.
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