Malcolm Brock, M.D., thoracic surgeon, explains the multidisciplinary approach and treatment options for patients with hyperhidrosis, including microwave-thermolysis (MT).
at Johns Hopkins. We have used a multi disciplinary approach to hyperhidrosis, and we are employing um, everything from neurologist to psychologists, dermatologists as well a surgeons in order to combat what we think is a wider syndrome. Eso Our approach is to use anything from ointments all the way up to surgery on many innovative new technologies in between, such as microwave thermal isis. Yeah, So microwave thermal isis is a new technology FDA approved in 2011 that uses microwaves to permanently thermal ice or use heat to destroy both sets of sweat glands, April Quran and the Akron sweat glands, and therefore it can take away both sweating as well as odor. Um, interestingly, we have patients that come for odor on dat usually takes about one treatment. Um, the treatments are take about an hour. They're done three months apart, um, to are usually needed to destroy the sweat glands that actually cause the sweating. Um, patients generally don't have any real side effects. They're all short term swelling, some numbness, uh, some pain that is taking care of the Tylenol. Um, it's an outpatient procedure. It occurs right in the office. Um, and we were the first, um ah center in Maryland to actually purchase the equipment in 2000 and 12. It is a very effective way of taking care of sweating. Unfortunately, we can only use it in the underarm so far, so it's only really, um, FDA proof for the underarms e.
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