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

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Sympathectomy induces adrenergic excitability of cutaneous C-fiber nociceptors

Sympathectomy induces adrenergic excitability of cutaneous C-fiber nociceptors

D. F. Bossut, V. K. Shea and E. R. Perl
Department of Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599-7545, USA.

http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/75/1/514

J Neurophysiol 75: 514-517, 1996;
0022-3077/96 $5.0

Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 75, Issue 1 514-517, Copyright © 1996 by APS

Sympathectomy IS the DAMAGE to the sympathetic nervous system, that will cause the pain.