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
"Lets just stop a minute to become aware of our own autonomic state: tongue, heart rate, peristalsis, skin – temp and moisture – warm & dry; cold&wet; relaxation/tension. Attentiveness – alert to broad awareness.."
seminar ‘The New Anatomy: Exploring the Mind in the Body’ run at Chiron February-March 2001.
It will be all altered. Sympathectomy produces a parasympathetic dominance.
