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

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Further news from Australia - action group

As a new development a support and action group has been set up in Sydney, Australia, that will act as a representative of the victims of the ETS surgery in communication with the government organizations (MSAC, RACS, ASERNIP-s) and Health Minister to negotiate the situation that needs to be addressed following the recent suicide of Tim McCarthy, who was disabled and devastated by the side-effects of his ETS surgery.
It also will provide support with the communication for the patients distressed after undergoing the surgery. They will provide information and links to other groups overseas. The soon to be updated Australian website can be found here:
http://ets-sideeffects.net/index.html