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 16, 2008

SKIN AND SYMPATHECTOMY

Sympathectomy Protects Denervated Skin from Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Mohamed A. Kharfan-Dabaja MDa, Claudio Anasetti MDa and James L.M. Ferrara MDb
a
Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and University of South
Florida, Tampa, Florida
b
Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Available online 20 February 2007.

Translated: this means that sympathectomy reduces the skin immune responses. Not a good thing. There are some surgeons - who offer sympathectomy - who promise that it will aslo cure acne!!!! Quite the contrary. Your skin will have less resilience and more prone to infections as it will have a downregulated immue reponse. Just another 'euphemism' from the doctors, that is totally unsubstantiated and fraudulent.