The amount of compensatory sweating depends on the patient, the damage that the white rami communicans incurs, and the amount of cell body reorganization in the spinal cord after surgery.
Other potential complications include inadequate resection of the ganglia, gustatory sweating, pneumothorax, cardiac dysfunction, post-operative pain, and finally Horner’s syndrome secondary to resection of the stellate ganglion.
www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_2_1_2010_24-29.pdf

After severing the cervical sympathetic trunk, the cells of the cervical sympathetic ganglion undergo transneuronic degeneration
After severing the sympathetic trunk, the cells of its origin undergo complete disintegration within a year.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0442.1967.tb00255.x/abstract

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Control of intraocular blood flow

Control of intraocular blood flow.
II. Effects of sympathetic tone
John J. Weiter, Ronald A. Schachar, and J. Terry Ernest
(animal study)

March 7, 1973


Cervical sympathectomy increased ocu-
lar blood flow more than 30 per cent
(Table I). The increase in blood flow was
approximately equal in both the uveal sub-
divisions and the retina. Sympathetic
stimulation decreased ocular blood flow.
The blood flow was decreased by 56 per
cent in the ciliary body, 45 per cent in the
choroid, and 41 per cent in the retina. The
results were similar when the control vs.
experimental eye was alternated.