Sweating is a biological function, related to thermoregulation and controlled by the autonomic nervous system. Therefore, the assessment of sweat glands production is a powerful tool to acquire crucial physiological measures that can be used to diagnose or to follow-up a condition of autonomic neuropathy. In recent years different tests have been used to evaluate sudomotor function. We will discuss some of them and will describe their main characteristics: Silastic Imprint Test (SIT), Dynamic Sweat Test (DST), Sensitive Sweat Test (SST), Quantitative Direct and Indirect Test of Sudomotor Function (QDIRT), Quantitative Sudomotor Axon Reflex Test (QSART) and SUDOSCAN.
A Review of Methods and Measurement Instrumentation for Sweat Testing
Imbriglia M.;De Vito L.;
2023-01-01
Abstract
Sweating is a biological function, related to thermoregulation and controlled by the autonomic nervous system. Therefore, the assessment of sweat glands production is a powerful tool to acquire crucial physiological measures that can be used to diagnose or to follow-up a condition of autonomic neuropathy. In recent years different tests have been used to evaluate sudomotor function. We will discuss some of them and will describe their main characteristics: Silastic Imprint Test (SIT), Dynamic Sweat Test (DST), Sensitive Sweat Test (SST), Quantitative Direct and Indirect Test of Sudomotor Function (QDIRT), Quantitative Sudomotor Axon Reflex Test (QSART) and SUDOSCAN.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
