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

Monday, March 24, 2008

EFFECT OF SYMPATHECTOMY ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ARTERIES

Mangoni, Arduino A.; Mircoli, Luca; Giannattasio, Cristina; Mancia, Giuseppe; Ferrari, Alberto U.

From the Centro di Fisiologia Clinica e Ipertensione (A.A.M., L.M.), Ospedale Maggiore, Milano; the Cattedra di Medicina Interna (C.G., G.M.), Universita di Milano, Ospedale S. Gerardo, Monza; and the Divisione di Cardioribilitazione (A.U.F.), Ospedale di Seregno, Az/U.S.S.L. 30, Desio, Italy.
Correspondence to Alberto U. Ferrari, MD, Centro Fisiologia Clinica e Ipertensione, Via F. Sforza, 35, 20122 Milano, Italy.

Effect of Sympathectomy on Mechanical Properties of Common Carotid and Femoral Arteries.
Source
Hypertension. 30(5):1085-1088, November 1997.