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

Friday, January 18, 2008

MORE ON BRAIN COOLING


“The efficiency of SBC (Selective Brain Cooling) is increased by evaporation of sweat on the head and by ventilation through the nose.” (Nagasaka et al. 1998)

“A necessary condition for SBC is a high heat loss capacity from the head itself, without such a heat loss SBC is not possible.” (Cabanac 1993)

“Because the human head sweats more than the rest of the body, heat loss from the head skin could amount to 125-175 Watts under conditions of moderate hyperthermia.” (http://www.editthis.info/corposcindosis/Changes_to_Systemic_Function%2C_part_1Cabanac 1993)