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Anhidrosis
Introduction
Synonyms and keywords: Hypohidrosis; oligidria; oligohidrosis; sweating deficiency
Causes
Causes
It may be caused by underactivity of the sympathetic nervous system. Eccrine sweat glands are innervated by muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. Therefore, antimuscarinic drugs can cause anhidrosis.
Common Causes
- Miscellaneous conditions
- Symptoms and signs
- Autosomal dominant conditions
- Dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis
- Hay-Wells syndrome
- Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 1E
- Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, autosomal dominant
- Limb-mammary syndrome
- Marshall syndrome
- Naegeli-Franceschetti-Jadassohn syndrome
- Rapp-Hodgkin ectodermal dysplasia syndrome
- Autosomal recessive conditions
- Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 4
- Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, autosomal recessive type
- Rosselli-Gulienetti syndrome
- X-linked inherited conditions
- Bazex-Dupre-Christol syndrome
- Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia with immune deficiency
- Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, X-linked
- Bacteria and bacterial conditions
- Iatrogenic conditions
- Sympathectomy
- Drugs, hormones and mediators
- Hexamethonium
- Topiramate
- Zonisamide
- Drug Causes
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