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

THIS IS WHAT THERMOREGULATORY DYSFUNCTION LOOKS LIKE


CONSIDERABLE HYPERTHERMIA THROUGHOUT THE FACE AND NECK, WHICH IS CONSISTENT WITH AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION.
A SURGICALLY INDUCED AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION, THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH T2 SYMPATHECTOMY.
A SIGNIFICANT PATERN OF HYPOTHERMIA EXTENDING FROM THE RIGHT ARM INTO THE RIGHT AXILLA, THIS ALSO CORRELATES WITH THERMOREGULATORY DYSFUNCTION.