Sweating and Congestive Heart Failure

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Abstract
EXCESSIVE perspiration has been noted for a number of years to be one of the signs and symptoms of congestive heart failure in this clinic. As a matter of fact, it is so frequent that our standard cardiac clinic sheet lists increased sweating as one of the symptoms to be checked on the first visit. On the hospital ward it is particularly striking to see the moist, sweat-covered forehead of infants in a cool room or a cool oxygen tent. Aside from cystic fibrosis,1 2 3 sweating has received little comment in the literature, probably because of difficulty in accurately measuring sweating . . .