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

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

redistribution of cerebral bloodflow following sympathectomy!

SM Mueller, DD Heistad and ML Marcus

Effect of sympathetic denervation in dogs.
Total and regional cerebral blood flow during hypotension, hypertension, and hypocapnia.

The major new findings in this study are,
first, that hypotension produces a redistribution of CBF which tends to preserve blood flow to brainstem and to
cerebral gray matter...

1977 American Heart Association