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

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nausea and vomiting are commonly associated with sympathetic withdrawal

F. Costa1, P. Lavin1, D. Robertson1 and I. Biaggioni1 Contact Information

(1) Division of Clinical Pharmacology, the Clinical Research Center, and the Center for Space Physiology and Medicine, Departments of Pharmacology, Medicine, Neurology and Ophthalmology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
(2) Clinical Research Center, Room AA3228 Medical Center North, Vanderbilt University, 37232-2195 Nashville, TN, USA

Received: 6 July 1995

Conditions associated with nausea and vomiting, such as motion sickness or side effects of medications, are commonly associated with a clinical picture consistent with parasympathetic activation and sympathetic withdrawal.